Yohanes 3:11

3:11 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but ²  you people ³  do not accept our testimony. ⁴ 

Yohanes 9:21

9:21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. ⁵  Ask him, he is a mature adult. ⁶  He will speak for himself.”

Yohanes 12:36

12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” ⁷  When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

Yohanes 17:6

Jesus Prays for the Disciples

17:6 “I have revealed ⁸  your name to the men ⁹  you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, ¹⁰  and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed ¹¹  your word.

Yohanes 18:1

Betrayal and Arrest

18:1 When he had said these things, ¹²  Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. ¹³  There was an orchard ¹⁴  there, and he and his disciples went into it.

[3:11]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[3:11]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to show the contrast present in the context.

[3:11]  ³ tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied in the translation to indicate that the verb is second person plural (referring to more than Nicodemus alone).

[3:11]  ⁴ sn Note the remarkable similarity of Jesus’ testimony to the later testimony of the Apostle John himself in 1 John 1:2: “And we have seen and testify and report to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us.” This is only one example of how thoroughly the author’s own thoughts were saturated with the words of Jesus (and also how difficult it is to distinguish the words of Jesus from the words of the author in the Fourth Gospel).

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “who opened his eyes” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Or “he is of age.”

[12:36]  ⁷ tn The idiom “sons of light” means essentially “people characterized by light,” that is, “people of God.”

[12:36]  sn The expression sons of light refers to men and women to whom the truth of God has been revealed and who are therefore living according to that truth, thus, “people of God.”

[17:6]  ⁸ tn Or “made known,” “disclosed.”

[17:6]  ⁹ tn Here “men” is retained as a translation for ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") rather than the more generic “people” because in context it specifically refers to the eleven men Jesus had chosen as apostles (Judas had already departed, John 13:30). If one understands the referent here to be the broader group of Jesus’ followers that included both men and women, a translation like “to the people” should be used here instead.

[17:6]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Yours they were.”

[17:6]  ¹¹ tn Or “have kept.”

[18:1]  ¹² sn When he had said these things appears to be a natural transition at the end of the Farewell Discourse (the farewell speech of Jesus to his disciples in John 13:31-17:26, including the final prayer in 17:1-26). The author states that Jesus went out with his disciples, a probable reference to their leaving the upper room where the meal and discourse described in chaps. 13-17 took place (although some have seen this only as a reference to their leaving the city, with the understanding that some of the Farewell Discourse, including the concluding prayer, was given en route, cf. 14:31). They crossed the Kidron Valley and came to a garden, or olive orchard, identified in Matt 26:36 and Mark 14:32 as Gethsemane. The name is not given in Luke’s or John’s Gospel, but the garden must have been located somewhere on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives.

[18:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “the wadi of the Kidron,” or “the ravine of the Kidron” (a wadi is a stream that flows only during the rainy season and is dry during the dry season).

[18:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “a garden.”