Yohanes 4:46

Healing the Royal Official’s Son

4:46 Now he came again to Cana ¹  in Galilee where he had made the water wine. ²  In ³  Capernaum ⁴  there was a certain royal official ⁵  whose son was sick.

Yohanes 9:11

9:11 He replied, ⁶  “The man called Jesus made mud, ⁷  smeared it ⁸  on my eyes and told me, ⁹  ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” ¹⁰ 

Yohanes 12:16

12:16 (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, ¹¹  but when Jesus was glorified, ¹²  then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened ¹³  to him.) ¹⁴ 

[4:46]  ¹ map For location see Map1 C3; Map2 D2; Map3 C5.

[4:46]  ² sn See John 2:1-11.

[4:46]  ³ tn Grk “And in.”

[4:46]  ⁴ sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.

[4:46]  map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.

[4:46]  ⁵ tn Although βασιλικός (basiliko") has often been translated “nobleman” it is almost certainly refers here to a servant of Herod, tetrarch of Galilee (who in the NT is called a king, Matt 14:9, Mark 6:14-29). Capernaum was a border town, so doubtless there were many administrative officials in residence there.

[9:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “That one answered.”

[9:11]  ⁷ tn Or “clay” (moistened earth of a clay-like consistency).

[9:11]  ⁸ tn Grk “and smeared.” Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when obvious from the context.

[9:11]  ⁹ tn Grk “said to me.”

[9:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “and I gained my sight.”

[12:16]  ¹¹ tn Or “did not understand these things at first”; Grk “formerly.”

[12:16]  ¹² sn When Jesus was glorified, that is, glorified through his resurrection, exaltation, and return to the Father. Jesus’ glorification is consistently portrayed this way in the Gospel of John.

[12:16]  ¹³ tn Grk “and that they had done these things,” though the referent is probably indefinite and not referring to the disciples; as such, the best rendering is as a passive (see ExSyn 402-3; R. E. Brown, John [AB], 1:458).

[12:16]  ¹⁴ sn The comment His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened (a parenthetical note by the author) informs the reader that Jesus’ disciples did not at first associate the prophecy from Zechariah with the events as they happened. This came with the later (postresurrection) insight which the Holy Spirit would provide after Jesus’ resurrection and return to the Father. Note the similarity with John 2:22, which follows another allusion to a prophecy in Zechariah (14:21).