Yohanes 7:51

7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn ¹  a man unless it first hears from him and learns ²  what he is doing, does it?” ³ 

Yohanes 8:48

8:48 The Judeans ⁴  replied, ⁵  “Aren’t we correct in saying ⁶  that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?” ⁷ 

Yohanes 9:19-20

9:19 They asked the parents, ⁸  “Is this your son, whom you say ⁹  was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 9:20 So his parents replied, ¹⁰  “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

Yohanes 19:42

19:42 And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation ¹¹  and the tomb was nearby, ¹²  they placed Jesus’ body there.

[7:51]  ¹ tn Grk “judge.”

[7:51]  ² tn Grk “knows.”

[7:51]  ³ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “does it?”).

[8:48]  ⁴ tn Grk “the Jews.” See the note on this term in v. 31. Here the phrase refers to the Jewish people in Jerusalem (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e) who had been listening to Jesus’ teaching in the temple courts (8:20) and had initially believed his claim to be the Messiah (cf. 8:31). They had become increasingly hostile as Jesus continued to teach. Now they were ready to say that Jesus was demon-possessed.

[8:48]  ⁵ tn Grk “answered and said to him.”

[8:48]  ⁶ tn Grk “Do we not say rightly.”

[8:48]  ⁷ tn Grk “and have a demon.” It is not clear what is meant by the charge Σαμαρίτης εἶ σὺ καὶ δαιμόνιον ἔχεις (Samarith" ei su kai daimonion ecei"). The meaning could be “you are a heretic and are possessed by a demon.” Note that the dual charge gets one reply (John 8:49). Perhaps the phrases were interchangeable: Simon Magus (Acts 8:14-24) and in later traditions Dositheus, the two Samaritans who claimed to be sons of God, were regarded as mad, that is, possessed by demons.

[9:19]  ⁸ tn Grk “and they asked them, saying”; the referent (the parents) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:19]  ⁹ tn The Greek pronoun and verb are both plural (both parents are addressed).

[9:20]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “So his parents answered and said.”

[19:42]  ¹¹ sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath.

[19:42]  ¹² sn The tomb was nearby. The Passover and the Sabbath would begin at 6 p.m., so those who had come to prepare and bury the body could not afford to waste time.