Yohanes 3:29

3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly ¹  when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. ² 

Yohanes 10:38

10:38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, ³  so that you may come to know ⁴  and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

Yohanes 17:26

17:26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, ⁵  so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

[3:29]  ¹ tn Grk “rejoices with joy” (an idiom).

[3:29]  ² tn Grk “Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.”

[10:38]  ³ tn Or “works.”

[10:38]  sn Jesus says that in the final analysis, the deeds he did should indicate whether he was truly from the Father. If the authorities could not believe in him, it would be better to believe in the deeds he did than not to believe at all.

[10:38]  ⁴ tn Or “so that you may learn.”

[17:26]  ⁵ tn The translation “will continue to make it known” is proposed by R. E. Brown (John [AB], 2:773).