Yohanes 7:1

The Feast of Tabernacles

7:1 After this ¹  Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. ²  He ³  stayed out of Judea ⁴  because the Jewish leaders ⁵  wanted ⁶  to kill him.

Yohanes 11:9

11:9 Jesus replied, ⁷  “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, ⁸  because he sees the light of this world. ⁹ 

Yohanes 17:14

17:14 I have given them your word, ¹⁰  and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, ¹¹  just as I do not belong to the world. ¹² 

Yohanes 19:7

19:7 The Jewish leaders ¹³  replied, ¹⁴  “We have a law, ¹⁵  and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!” ¹⁶ 

[7:1]  ¹ sn Again, the transition is indicated by the imprecise temporal indicator After this. Clearly, though, the author has left out much of the events of Jesus’ ministry, because chap. 6 took place near the Passover (6:4). This would have been the Passover between winter/spring of a.d. 32, just one year before Jesus’ crucifixion (assuming a date of a.d. 33 for the crucifixion), or the Passover of winter/spring a.d. 29, assuming a date of a.d. 30 for the crucifixion.

[7:1]  ² tn Grk “Jesus was traveling around in Galilee.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Grk “For he.” Here γάρ (gar, “for”) has not been translated.

[7:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “he did not want to travel around in Judea.”

[7:1]  ⁵ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” BT 26 [1975]: 401-9.) Here the phrase should be restricted to the Jewish authorities or leaders who were Jesus’ primary opponents.

[7:1]  ⁶ tn Grk “were seeking.”

[11:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “Jesus answered.”

[11:9]  ⁸ tn Or “he does not trip.”

[11:9]  ⁹ sn What is the light of this world? On one level, of course, it refers to the sun, but the reader of John’s Gospel would recall 8:12 and understand Jesus’ symbolic reference to himself as the light of the world. There is only a limited time left (Are there not twelve hours in a day?) until the Light will be withdrawn (until Jesus returns to the Father) and the one who walks around in the dark will trip and fall (compare the departure of Judas by night in 13:30).

[17:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “your message.”

[17:14]  ¹¹ tn Grk “because they are not of the world.”

[17:14]  ¹² tn Grk “just as I am not of the world.”

[19:7]  ¹³ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” BT 26 [1975]: 401-9.) Here the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders, especially members of the Sanhedrin, and their servants (mentioned specifically as “the chief priests and their servants” in John 19:6).

[19:7]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “answered him.”

[19:7]  ¹⁵ sn This law is not the entire Pentateuch, but Lev 24:16.

[19:7]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “because he made himself out to be the Son of God.”