Yohanes 7:32

7:32 The Pharisees ¹  heard the crowd ²  murmuring these things about Jesus, ³  so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers ⁴  to arrest him. ⁵ 

Yohanes 9:16

9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, ⁶  “This man is not from God, because he does not observe ⁷  the Sabbath.” ⁸  But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform ⁹  such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division ¹⁰  among them.

[7:32]  ¹ sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.

[7:32]  ² tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities like the Pharisees).

[7:32]  ³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:32]  ⁴ tn Or “servants.” The “chief priests and Pharisees” is a comprehensive term for the groups represented in the ruling council (the Sanhedrin) as in John 7:45; 18:3; Acts 5:22, 26. As “servants” or “officers” of the Sanhedrin their representatives should be distinguished from the Levites serving as temple police (perhaps John 7:30 and 44; also John 8:20; 10:39; 19:6; Acts 4:3). Even when performing “police” duties such as here, their “officers” are doing so only as part of their general tasks (see K. H. Rengstorf, TDNT 8:540).

[7:32]  ⁵ tn Grk “to seize him.” In the context of a deliberate attempt by the servants of the chief priests and Pharisees to detain Jesus, the English verb “arrest” conveys the point more effectively.

[9:16]  ⁶ tn As a response to the answers of the man who used to be blind, the use of the imperfect tense in the reply of the Pharisees is best translated as an ingressive imperfect (“began to say” or “started saying”).

[9:16]  ⁷ tn Grk “he does not keep.”

[9:16]  ⁸ sn The Jewish religious leaders considered the work involved in making the mud to be a violation of the Sabbath.

[9:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “do.”

[9:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “So there was discord.”