The Prologue to John’s Gospel

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² This one was in the beginning with God.

³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that¹ has come into being.

1. Or “came into being. What …,” beginning a new sentence connected with the following verse. A major punctuation problem is involved, since the earliest manuscripts have no punctuation, but some important later ones place the punctuation before this phrase, effectively connecting it to v. 4: “What has come into being was life in him”

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity.¹

1. Or “humankind”

⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome¹ it.

1. Or “comprehend” (if primarily referring to people in the world)

⁶ A man came, sent from God, ⌞whose name was⌟¹ John.

1. Literally “the name to him”

⁷ This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

⁸ That one was not the light, but came¹ in order that he could testify about the light.

1. The verb is implied from the previous verse, and must be supplied in the English translation

⁹ The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize¹ him.

1. Or “acknowledge”

¹¹ He came to his own things, and his own people did not receive him.

¹² But as many as received him—to those who believe in his name—he gave to them authority to become children of God,

¹³ who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ John testified about him and cried out, saying, “This one was he about whom I said, ‘The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”

¹⁶ For from his fullness we have all received, and grace after grace.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father—that one has made him¹ known.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

John the Baptist Testifies to Jesus

¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent¹ priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, “Who are you?”

1. Some manuscripts have “sent to him”

²⁰ And he confessed—and he did not deny, and confessed—“I am not the Christ!”

²¹ And they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?”¹ And he answered, “No!”

1. A reference to the “Prophet like Moses” of Deut 18:15 (see Acts 3:22)

²² Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

²³ He said, “I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’¹ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

1. A quotation from Isa 40:3

²⁴ (And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

²⁵ And they asked him and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

²⁶ John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know—

²⁷ the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy ⌞to untie⌟¹ the strap of his sandal!”

1. Literally “that I might untie”

²⁸ These things took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹ On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰ This one is the one about whom I said, ‘After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.’

³¹ And I did not know him, but in order that he could be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with water.”

³² And John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him.

³³ And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, ‘The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him—this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

³⁴ And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One¹ of God.

1. Some manuscripts have “the Son of God”

Two of John’s Disciples Follow Jesus

³⁵ On the next day again John was standing there,¹ and two of his disciples,

1. *The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied

³⁶ and looking at Jesus as he¹ was walking by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!”

1. *Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“walking by”) which is understood as temporal

³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸ And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following him,¹ said to them, “What do you seek?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means when² translated “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“translated”) which is understood as temporal

³⁹ He said to them, “Come and you will see!” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

Andrew Declares Jesus to be the Messiah

⁴⁰ Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

⁴¹ This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated “Christ”).

⁴² He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, “You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is interpreted “Peter”).

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael

⁴³ On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me!”

⁴⁴ (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

⁴⁵ Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets wrote about—Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!”

⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see!”

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Look! ⌞A true Israelite⌟¹ in whom is no deceit!”

1. Literally “truly an Israelite”

⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you¹ were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as temporal

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!”

⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

⁵¹ And he said to him, “Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

The Wedding at Cana: Water Turned into Wine

¹ And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

² And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

³ And when the¹ wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine!”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“ran out”)

⁴ And Jesus said to her, “What ⌞does your concern have to do with me⌟,¹ woman? My hour has not yet come.”

1. Literally “to me and to you”

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it!”¹

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁶ Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.¹

1. A “measure” was about 9 gallons (40 liters)

⁷ Jesus said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them to the brim.

⁸ And he said to them, “Now draw some¹ out and take it² to the head steward. So they took it.³

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁹ Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from—but the servants who had drawn the water knew—the head steward summoned the bridegroom

¹⁰ and said to him, “⌞Everyone⌟¹ serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

1. Literally “every man”

¹¹ This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus’ First Journey to Jerusalem

¹² After this he went down to Capernaum, and his mother and brothers¹ and his disciples, and they stayed there ⌞a few⌟² days.

1. Some manuscripts have “his brothers”
2. Literally “not many”

¹³ And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

The Cleansing of the Temple

¹⁴ And he found in the temple courts¹ those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.

1. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

¹⁵ And he made a whip of cords and¹ drove them² all out of the temple courts,³ both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their⁴ tables.

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“made”) has been translated as a finite verb
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
4. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹⁶ And to the ones selling the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house ⌞a marketplace⌟!”¹

1. Literally “a market house”; or “a house of merchants” (an allusion to Zech 14:21)

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”¹

1. A quotation from Ps 69:9

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!”

²⁰ Then the Jews said, “This temple has been under construction¹ forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”

1. This translation of the aorist verb is based on a very close parallel in Ezra 5:16 (LXX), where it is clear from the following verb that the construction had not yet been completed

²¹ But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

²² So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus at the Passover

²³ Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name because they¹ saw his signs which he was doing.

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as causal

²⁴ But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people,¹

1. The Greek term is masculine and thus refers to “all people” rather than “all things” (which would be neuter)

²⁵ and because he did not ⌞need⌟¹ anyone ⌞to testify⌟² about man, for he himself knew what was in man.³

1. Literally “have need that”
2. Literally “should testify”
3. *Here “man” has been retained rather than the generic “people” to maintain the connection with the following verse

A Meeting with Nicodemus

¹ Now there was a man of the Pharisees ⌞whose name was⌟¹ Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

1. Literally “the name to him”

² This man came to him at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are¹ a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him.”

1. *Here both the pronoun and verb are understood in Greek and are supplied in the translation

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above,¹ he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

1. The same Greek word can mean either “from above” or “again,” which allows for the misunderstanding by Nicodemus here; Jesus was speaking of new birth “from above,” while Nicodemus misunderstood him to mean a second physical birth

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother’s womb for the second time and be born, can he?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “can he”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷ Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘It is necessary for you to be born from above.’¹

1. The same Greek word can mean either “from above” or “again” (see also v. 3)

⁸ The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things?

¹¹ Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!

¹² If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³ And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,¹ thus it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up,

1. An allusion to Num 21:5–9

¹⁵ so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.”¹

1. Some interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of Jesus’ words through v. 21

God’s Love for the World

¹⁶ For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge¹ the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

1. Or “he should condemn”

¹⁸ The one who believes in him is not judged,¹ but the one who does not believe has already been judged,² because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

1. Or “condemned”
2. Or “been condemned”

¹⁹ And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

²⁰ For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

²¹ But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

Additional Testimony by John the Baptist About Jesus

²² After these things Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

²³ Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.

²⁴ (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

²⁵ So a dispute occurred on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew¹ concerning purification.

1. Some significant early manuscripts read “the Jews”

²⁶ And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified—look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!”

²⁷ John answered and said, “A man can receive not one thing unless it is granted to him from heaven!

²⁸ You yourselves testify about me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.’

²⁹ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices ⌞greatly⌟¹ because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

1. Literally “with joy”

³⁰ It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease.”

³¹ The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all.

³² What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.

³³ The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true.

³⁴ For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

³⁶ The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life—but the wrath of God remains on him.¹

1. Some interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of John the Baptist’s words through v. 36

The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well

¹ Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

² (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),

³ he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

⁴ And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

⁵ Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

⁶ And Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me water¹ to drink.”

1. *Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “give”

⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.)

⁹ So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water¹ to drink, since I² am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

1. *Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “ask”
2. *Here “since” is supplied as a component of the participle (“am”) which is understood as causal

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water¹ to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

1. *Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “give”

¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?

¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you,¹ who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “are you” in the translation

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

¹⁴ But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water!”¹

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁶ He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

¹⁷ The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,’

¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!”

¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people¹ say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.”

1. *Here “people” is supplied in the translation because the Greek pronoun is plural

²¹ Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

²³ But an hour is coming—and now is here¹—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

1. *The word “here” is not in the Greek text but is implied

²⁴ God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”

²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.¹

1. *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation

The Disciples and the Harvest

²⁷ And at this point¹ his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you seek?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”

1. *The word “point” is not in the Greek text but is implied

²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,¹

1. Assuming the term is used here in a generic sense to refer to persons of either gender, it should be translated “people”; if instead the term here refers only to the town leaders or elders who met at the town gate, then “men” would be appropriate

²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?”

³⁰ They went out from the town and were coming to him.

³¹ In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something!”¹

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³ So the disciples began to say¹ to one another, “No one brought him anything² to eat, did they?”³

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “did they” in the translation

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.¹

1. Some interpreters and Bible translations place the word “already” at the beginning of the next verse: “Already the one who reaps receives wages …”

³⁶ The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

³⁷ For in this instance¹ the saying is true, ‘It is one who sows and another who reaps.’

1. *The word “point” is not in the Greek text but is implied

³⁸ I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work.”

The Samaritans and the Savior of the World

³⁹ Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking¹ him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)

⁴¹ And many more believed because of his word,

⁴² And they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of ⌞what you said⌟¹ do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!”

1. Literally “your speaking”

Return to Galilee

⁴³ And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they¹ had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had seen”) which is understood as causal

A Royal Official’s Son Is Healed

⁴⁶ Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

⁴⁷ This man, when he¹ heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal

⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people¹ see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”

1. *Here “people” is supplied in the translation because the Greek verb (“see”) is plural

⁴⁹ The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

⁵¹ Now as¹ he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.

1. *Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was going down”)

⁵² So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³ So the father knew that it was that¹ same hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed, and his whole household.

1. Some manuscripts have “that it was at that same hour”

⁵⁴ Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he¹ came from Judea into Galilee.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal

A Paralytic Is Healed

¹ After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha,¹ which has five porticoes.

1. The majority of later manuscripts read “Bethesda,” while other early manuscripts read “Bethsaida”

³ In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.¹

1. The majority of later manuscripts add the following words: “waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴ For an angel of the Lord from time to time went down in the pool and stirred up the water. So the one who went in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he suffered.”

⁵ And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.

⁶ Jesus, when he¹ saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick² a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
2. *The phrase “been sick” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied from the context

⁷ The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But ⌞while⌟¹ I am coming, another goes down before me.”

1. Literally “during which time”

⁸ Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”

⁹ And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.¹ (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to walk”)

¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”¹

1. Some manuscripts have “your mat”

¹¹ But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’ ”

¹² So they asked him,¹ “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat² and walk?’ ”

1. Some manuscripts have “They asked him”
2. *In Greek the direct object (“your mat”) is not in the Greek text but the repetition is implied from the previous verse

¹³ But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while¹ a crowd was in the place.

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)

Equal with God

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.”

¹⁵ The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.

¹⁶ And on account of this the Jews began to persecute¹ Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to persecute”)

¹⁷ But he answered¹ them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

1. Some manuscripts have “Jesus answered”

¹⁸ So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus¹ making himself equal with God.

1. *Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“making”) which is understood as result

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished.

²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them¹ alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²² For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

²³ in order that all people¹ will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

1. *The word “people” is not in the Greek text but is implied

²⁴ Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

²⁵ “Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming—and now is here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.

²⁶ For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁷ And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be astonished at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice

²⁹ and they will come out—those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil things to a resurrection of judgment.

³⁰ I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Further Testimony About the Son

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

³³ You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴ (And I do not receive testimony from people, but I say these things in order that you may be saved.)

³⁵ That one was the lamp which was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his light.

³⁶ “But I have a testimony greater than John’s, for the works which the Father has given to me that I should complete them—the very works which I am doing—these testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁷ And the Father who sent me, that one has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.

³⁸ And you do not have his word residing in yourselves, because the one whom that one sent, in this one you do not believe.

³⁹ You search¹ the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

1. Or “Search” (an imperative)

⁴⁰ And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

⁴¹ “I do not accept glory¹ from people,

1. Or “honor”

⁴² but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one!

⁴⁴ How are you able to believe, if you¹ accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory which is from the only God?

1. *Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“accept”) which is understood as conditional

⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope!

⁴⁶ For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for that one wrote about me.

⁴⁷ But if you do not believe that one’s writings, how will you believe my words?”

The Feeding of Five Thousand

¹ After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee (that is, Tiberias).

² And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

³ So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

⁴ (Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.)

⁵ ⌞Then Jesus, when he looked up⌟¹² and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people can eat?”

1. Literally “then Jesus lifting up the eyes”
2. *Here “when” in the translation is supplied as a component of the participle “lifting up” which is understood as temporal

⁶ (Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

⁷ Philip replied to him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little.”

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,

⁹ “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?”

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Make the people recline.” (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand in number.

¹¹ Then Jesus took the bread, and after he¹ had given thanks, he distributed it² to those who were reclining—likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.

1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had given thanks”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹² And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, “Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost.”

¹³ So they gathered them,¹ and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁴ Now when¹ the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say,² “This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
2. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

¹⁵ Then Jesus, because he¹ knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him² king, withdrew again up the mountain by himself alone.

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.

¹⁷ And getting into a boat, they began to go¹ to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to go”)

¹⁸ And the sea began to be stirred up¹ because² a strong wind was blowing.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to be stirred up”)
2. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was blowing”) which is understood as causal

¹⁹ Then when they¹ had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,² they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had rowed”) which is understood as temporal
2. A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was around 3 miles (5 km)

²⁰ But he said to them, “It is I! Do not be afraid!”

²¹ So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

Discourse About the Bread of Life

²² On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.

²³ Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after¹ the Lord had given thanks.

1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“had given thanks”)

²⁴ So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

²⁵ And when they¹ found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“found”) which is understood as temporal

²⁶ Jesus replied to them and said, “Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one.”

²⁸ So they said to him, “What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?”

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God: that you believe in the one whom that one sent.”

³⁰ So they said to him, “Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see it¹ and believe you? What will you do?

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’¹

1. A quotation from Ps 78:24 which refers to the events of Exod 16:4–36

³² Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven!

³³ For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ So they said to him, “Sir, always give us this bread!”

³⁵ Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

³⁶ But I said to you that you have seen me and do not believe.

³⁷ Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out,

³⁸ because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

³⁹ Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose any of them,¹ but raise them² up on the last day.

1. This pronoun is neuter singular in Greek, but is collective
2. This pronoun is neuter singular in Greek, but is collective

⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹ Now the Jews began to grumble¹ about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to grumble”)

⁴² and they were saying, “Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁴³ Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble ⌞among yourselves⌟!¹

1. Literally “with one another”

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’¹ Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.

1. A quotation from Isa 54:13

⁴⁶ (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—this one has seen the Father.)¹

1. The switch from first person in vv. 44–45 to third person here and back to first person in vv. 47–51 suggests that this verse is a parenthetical comment by the author rather than the words of Jesus

⁴⁷ Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die.

⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live ⌞forever⌟.¹ And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

1. Literally “for the age”

⁵² So the Jews began to quarrel¹ ⌞among themselves⌟,² saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to quarrel”)
2. Literally “with one another”

⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!

⁵⁴ The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

⁵⁶ The one who eats¹ my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.

1. *This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English

⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats¹ me—that one will live because of me.

1. *This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English

⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats¹ this bread will live ⌞forever⌟.”²

1. *This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
2. Literally “for the age”

Many of Jesus’ Disciples Offended by His Teaching

⁵⁹ He said these things while¹ teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal

⁶⁰ Thus many of his disciples, when they¹ heard it,² said, “This saying is hard! Who can understand it?”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁶¹ But Jesus, because he¹ knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal

⁶² Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

⁶³ The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

⁶⁵ And he said, “Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father.”

Peter’s Confession

⁶⁶ For this reason many of his disciples ⌞drew back⌟¹ and were not walking with him any longer.

1. Literally “went away to the things behind”

⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “do you”

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

⁶⁹ And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

⁷⁰ Jesus replied to them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil?”

⁷¹ (Now he was speaking about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, because this one—one of the twelve—was going to betray him.)

Jesus’ Brothers Do Not Believe in Him

¹ And after these things Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

² Now the feast of the Jews—the feast of Tabernacles—was near.

³ So his brothers said to him, “Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

⁴ For no one does anything in secret and yet he himself desires to be ⌞publicly recognized⌟.¹ If you are doing these things, reveal yourself to the world!”

1. Literally “with openness”

⁵ (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles

⁶ So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not¹ going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.²

1. Most manuscripts read “not yet” here, but this is obviously an easier reading intended to reconcile the statement with Jesus’ later actions
2. Or “fulfilled”

⁹ And when he¹ had said these things, he remained in Galilee.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

¹⁰ But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

¹¹ So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, “Where is he?”

¹² And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No, but he deceives the crowd.”

¹³ However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ ⌞Now when the feast was already half over⌟,¹ Jesus went to the temple courts² and began to teach.³

1. Literally “now it being already in the middle of the feast”
2. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
3. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)

¹⁵ Then the Jews were astonished, saying, “How does this man ⌞possess knowledge⌟,¹ because he² has not been taught?”

1. Literally “know letters”
2. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“been taught”) which is understood as causal

¹⁶ So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but is from the one who sent me.

¹⁷ If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my¹ teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹⁸ The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him—this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

²⁰ The crowd replied, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, “I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

²² Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well¹ on the Sabbath?

1. Or “a man entirely well”

²⁴ Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!”

Is Jesus the Christ?

²⁵ Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say,¹ “Is this not the one whom they are seeking to kill?

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

²⁶ And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

²⁷ Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes—no one knows where he is from!”

²⁸ Then Jesus cried out in the temple courts,¹ teaching and saying, “You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

1. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

²⁹ I know him, because I am from him and he sent me.”

³⁰ So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹ But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, will he?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “will he”

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order ⌞to take him into custody ⌟.¹

1. Literally “that they could seize him”

³³ Then Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.

³⁴ You will seek me and will not find me,¹² and where I am, you cannot come.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Some manuscripts explicitly state “me”

³⁵ So the Jews said to one another, “Where is this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is he”

³⁶ What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me,¹² and where I am, you cannot come’?”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Some manuscripts explicitly state “me”

The Promise of the Spirit

³⁷ Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

³⁸ the one who believes in me.¹ Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ”²

1. An alternative punctuation of vv. 37–38 reads: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and let him drink. The one who believes in me, just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
2. A quotation from the Old Testament of uncertain origin; texts most often suggested are Isa 44:3; 55:1; 58:11; Zech 14:8

³⁹ Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given,¹ because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

1. A few manuscripts supply the participle “given” here; while it is unlikely this represents the original reading, many English versions nevertheless supply “given” to avoid the impression that the Spirit did not exist prior to this point

Different Opinions About Jesus

⁴⁰ Then, when they¹ heard these words, some from the crowd began to say,² “This man is truly the Prophet!”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

⁴¹ Others were saying, “This man is the Christ!” But others were saying, “No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does he”

⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

⁴³ So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

⁴⁴ And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, “⌞Why⌟¹ did you not bring him?”

1. Literally “because of what”

⁴⁶ The officers replied, “Never has a man spoken like this!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees replied to them, “You have not also been deceived, have you?¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have you”

⁴⁸ ⌞None⌟¹ of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?²

1. Literally “not anyone”
2. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “have they”

⁴⁹ But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously—who was one of them—said to them,

⁵¹ “Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “does it”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “You are not also from Galilee, are you?¹ Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!” 〚

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”

⁵³ And each one went to his own house.¹

1. John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38

A Woman Caught in Adultery

¹ But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² Now early in the morning he came again to the temple courts.¹ And all the people were coming,² and he sat down and³ began to teach⁴ them.

1. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
2. Some manuscripts have “were coming to him”
3. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sat down”) has been translated as a finite verb
4. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)

³ Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman¹ caught in adultery. And standing her in their midst,

1. Some manuscripts have “brought a woman”

⁴ they said to him, testing him,¹ “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!

1. Some manuscripts omit “testing him”

⁵ Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”

⁶ (Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion¹ to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write² with his³ finger on the ground, taking no notice.⁴

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to write”)
3. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
4. Some manuscripts omit “taking no notice”

⁷ And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said¹ to them, “The one of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!”

1. Some manuscripts have “he straightened up and said”

⁸ And bending down again, he wrote on the ground.

⁹ Now when they¹ heard it,² being convicted by their conscience,³ they began to depart,⁴ one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus⁵ was left alone—and the woman who was in their midst.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. Some manuscripts omit “being convicted by their conscience”
4. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to depart”)
5. Some manuscripts have “he”

¹⁰ So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman,¹ said to her, “Where are those accusers of yours?² Does no one condemn you?”

1. Some manuscripts omit “and seeing no one except the woman”
2. Some manuscripts have “said to her, ‘Woman, where are they?”

¹¹ And she said, “No one, Lord.” So Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and¹ sin no more.”〛²

1. Some manuscripts have “and from now on”
2. John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38

Jesus, the Light of the World

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, “You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true.”

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going.

¹⁵ You judge according to externals; I do not judge anyone.

¹⁶ But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

¹⁷ And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.¹

1. An allusion to Deut 17:6

¹⁸ I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me.”

¹⁹ So they were saying to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus replied, “You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.”

²⁰ He spoke these words by the treasury while¹ teaching in the temple courts,² and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

Jesus Predicts His Death

²¹ So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!”

²² Then the Jews began to say,¹ “Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ ”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

²³ And he said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

²⁴ Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵ So they began to say to him,¹ “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “⌞What⌟² I have been saying to you from the beginning.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
2. Literally “that which”

²⁶ I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, these things I say to the world.”

²⁷ (They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

²⁸ Then Jesus said,¹ “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these things.

1. Some manuscripts have “said to them”

²⁹ And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

³⁰ While¹ he was saying these things, many believed in him.

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was saying”)

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

³³ They replied to him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴ Jesus replied to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

³⁵ And the slave does not remain in the household ⌞forever⌟;¹ the son remains ⌞forever⌟.²

1. Literally “for the age”
2. Literally “for the age”

³⁶ So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.

³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.

³⁸ I speak the things that I have seen with the Father; so also you do the things that you have heard from the Father.”

The Priority of Jesus Over Abraham

³⁹ They answered and said to him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus said to them, “If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!

⁴⁰ But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

⁴¹ You are doing the deeds of your father!” They said¹ to him, “We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!”

1. Some manuscripts have “Then they said”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me.

⁴³ ⌞Why⌟¹ do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

1. Literally “because of what”

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature,¹ because he is a liar and the father ⌞of lies⌟.²

1. *The word “nature” is not in the Greek text but is implied
2. Literally “of it”

⁴⁵ But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.

⁴⁶ Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, ⌞why⌟¹ do you not believe me?

1. Literally “because of what”

⁴⁷ The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen—because you are not of God.”

⁴⁸ The Jews answered and said to him, “Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

⁴⁹ Jesus replied, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me!

⁵⁰ But I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges!

⁵¹ Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never experience death ⌞forever⌟.”¹

1. Literally “for the age”

⁵² The Jews¹ said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham and the prophets died, and you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death ⌞forever⌟.’²

1. Some manuscripts have “Then the Jews”
2. Literally “for the age”

⁵³ You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, are you?¹ And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself to be?”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”

⁵⁴ Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

⁵⁵ And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.

⁵⁶ Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it¹ and was glad.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁵⁷ So the Jews said to him, “⌞You are⌟¹ not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”

1. Literally “you have”

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!”

⁵⁹ Then they picked up stones in order to throw them¹ at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple courts.²

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

A Man Born Blind Is Given Sight

¹ And as he¹ went away, he saw a man blind from birth.

1. *Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“went away”) which is understood as temporal

² And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”

³ Jesus replied, “Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it happened¹ so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

1. *The words “it happened” are not in the Greek text but are implied

⁴ It is necessary for us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

⁶ When he¹ had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

⁷ And he said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

⁸ Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say,¹ “Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

⁹ Others were saying, “It is this man”; others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” That one was saying, “I am he!”

¹⁰ So they began to say¹ to him, “How² were your eyes opened?”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
2. Some manuscripts have “Then how”

¹¹ He replied, “The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared it¹ on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash!’ So I went, and I washed, and² I received sight.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here “and” is supplied because the two previous participles (“went” and “washed”) have been translated as finite verbs

¹² And they said to him, “Where is that man?” He said, “I do not know.”

The Reaction of the Pharisees to the Healing

¹³ They brought him—the one formerly blind—to the Pharisees.

¹⁴ (Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.)

¹⁵ So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

¹⁶ So some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!” Others¹ were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

1. Some manuscripts have “But others”

¹⁷ So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸ So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one¹ who received sight.

1. Literally “of him”

¹⁹ And they asked them, saying, “Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

²⁰ So his parents answered and said, “We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

²¹ But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! ⌞He is a mature adult⌟;¹ he will speak for himself!”

1. Literally “he has maturity”

²² (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

²³ Because of this his parents said, “⌞He is a mature adult⌟;¹ ask him.”)

1. Literally “he has maturity”

²⁴ So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!”

²⁵ Then that man replied, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I know—that although I¹ was blind, now I see!”

1. *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as concessive

²⁶ So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

²⁷ He replied to them, “I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear it¹ again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?”²

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “do you”

²⁸ They reviled¹ him and said, “You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!

1. Some manuscripts have “And they reviled”

²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, “For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!

³¹ We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one.

³² From ⌞time immemorial⌟¹ it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.

1. Literally “the age”

³³ If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!”

³⁴ They answered and said to him, “You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach¹ us?” And they threw him out.

1. *Here the present tense is translated as a conative present (“attempting to teach”)

Jesus as the Son of Man

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

³⁶ He answered and said, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

³⁷ Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.” 〚

³⁸ And he said, “I believe, Lord!” and he worshiped him.

³⁹ And Jesus said,〛¹ “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!”

1. A number of important manuscripts lack v. 38 and the first part of v. 39 (“and Jesus said”)

⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, “We are not also blind, are we?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are we”

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Jesus as the Good Shepherd

¹ “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place—that one is a thief and a robber.

² But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

³ For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

⁴ Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

⁵ And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

⁶ Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

⁷ Then Jesus said to them¹ again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

1. Some manuscripts omit “to them”

⁸ All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.

⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture.

¹⁰ The thief ⌞comes only⌟¹ so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it² abundantly.

1. Literally “does not come except”
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹² The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them¹—

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹³ because he is a hired hand and ⌞he is not concerned⌟¹ about the sheep.

1. Literally “it is not a concern to him”

¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶ And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock—one shepherd.

¹⁷ Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again.

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down ⌞voluntarily⌟.¹ I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take possession of it again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

1. Literally “from myself”

¹⁹ Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.

²⁰ And many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

²¹ Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”¹

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is it”

Jesus at the Feast of the Dedication

²² Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon.

²⁴ So the Jews surrounded him and began to say¹ to him, “⌞How long will you keep us in suspense⌟?² If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
2. Literally “until when will you take away our life”

²⁵ Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me.

²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep!

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish ⌞forever⌟,¹ and no one will seize them out of my hand.

1. Literally “for the age”

²⁹ My Father, who has given them¹ to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them² from the Father’s hand.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁰ The Father and I are one.”

³¹ Then¹ the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

1. Some manuscripts omit “Then”

³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

³³ The Jews answered him, “We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, although you¹ are a man, make yourself to be God!”

1. *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as concessive

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’?¹

1. A quotation from Ps 82:6 (in common usage “law” could refer to the entire Old Testament)

³⁵ If he called them ‘gods’ to whom the word of God came—and the scripture cannot be broken—

³⁶ do you say about he whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

³⁷ If I do not do the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

³⁸ But if I am doing them,¹ even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁹ So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand.

⁴⁰ And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

⁴¹ And many came to him and began to say,¹ “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)

⁴² And many believed in him there.

Lazarus Dies

¹ Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

² (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

³ So the sisters sent word¹ to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴ And when he¹ heard it,² Jesus said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁵ (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

⁶ So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place ⌞where⌟¹ he was two days.

1. Literally “in which”

⁷ Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?”

⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰ But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹¹ He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him.”

¹² So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

¹³ (Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about ⌞real sleep⌟.¹)

1. Literally “the sleep of slumber”

¹⁴ So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

¹⁵ and I am glad ⌞for your sake⌟¹ that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

1. Literally “for the sake of you”

¹⁶ Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)¹ said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”

1. “Didymus” means “the twin” in Greek

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ So when he¹ arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrived”) which is understood as temporal

¹⁸ (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.¹

1. A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)

¹⁹ So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their¹ brother.)

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

²⁰ Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

²¹ So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²² Even¹ now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you.”

1. Some manuscripts have “But even”

²³ Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴ Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

²⁶ and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die ⌞forever⌟.¹ Do you believe this?”

1. Literally “for the age”

²⁷ She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ And when she¹ had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

²⁹ So that one, when she heard it,¹ got up quickly and went to him.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁰ (Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)

³¹ So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they¹ saw Mary—that she stood up quickly and went out—followed her, because they² thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“thought”) which is understood as causal

³² Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and¹ saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the participle (“saw”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style

³³ Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.

³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!”

³⁷ But some of them said, “Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something¹ so that this man also would not have died?”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Lazarus Is Raised

³⁸ Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it.

³⁹ Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.”

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his¹ eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

⁴² And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it,¹ so that they may believe that you sent me.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴³ And when he¹ had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

⁴⁴ The one who had died came out, his¹ feet and his² hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

The Jewish Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him.

⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

⁴⁸ If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place¹ and our² nation.”

1. Generally understood to be a reference to the Jerusalem temple
2. Literally “both the place and the nation of us”; the possessive pronoun is repeated in the translation (rather than the article) in keeping with English style

⁴⁹ But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all!

⁵⁰ Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹ (Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

⁵³ So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

⁵⁴ So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.

⁵⁶ So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another while¹ standing in the temple courts,² “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?”

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“standing”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

⁵⁷ (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it,¹ in order that they could arrest him.)

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

¹ Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

² So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.

³ Then Mary took a pound¹ of ointment of very valuable genuine nard and² anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

1. The Greek term refers to a Roman pound, 327.45 grams (approximately 12 ounces)
2. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb

⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

⁵ “⌞Why⌟¹ was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

1. Literally “because of what”

⁶ (Now he said this not because ⌞he was concerned⌟¹ about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)²

1. Literally “it was a concern to him”
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁷ So Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my preparation for burial.

⁸ For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me.”

The Decision to Kill Lazarus

⁹ Now a large crowd¹ of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

1. Some manuscripts have “the large crowd”

¹⁰ So the chief priests decided that they would kill Lazarus also,

¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going and believing in Jesus.

The Triumphal Entry

¹² On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they¹ heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal

¹³ took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,¹ even the king of Israel!”

1. A quotation from Ps 118:25–26

¹⁴ So Jesus found a young donkey and¹ sat on it, just as it is written,

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“found”) has been translated as a finite verb

¹⁵ “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion! Behold, your king is coming, seated on the foal of a donkey!”¹

1. A quotation from Zech 9:9

¹⁶ (His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and they did these things to him.)

¹⁷ So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.

¹⁸ Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard that he had performed this sign.

¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him.”

Greeks Seeking Jesus

²⁰ Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.

²¹ So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

²² Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

²³ And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

²⁴ Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and¹ dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“falls”) has been translated as a finite verb

²⁵ The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

²⁶ If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Jesus Predicts His Death

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But for this reason I have come to this hour!

²⁸ Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have both glorified it,¹ and I will glorify it² again.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁹ Now the crowd that stood there and heard it¹ said ⌞it had thundered⌟.² Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to him!”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “thunder had happened”

³⁰ Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not happened for my sake, but for your sake.

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!

³² And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

³³ (Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.)

³⁴ Then the crowd replied to him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains ⌞forever⌟!¹ And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

1. Literally “for the age”; probably an allusion to Ps 89:35–37 (in common usage “law” could refer to the entire Old Testament)

³⁵ So Jesus said to them, “Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

³⁶ While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these things, and then he went away and¹ was hidden from them.

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went away”) has been translated as a finite verb

The People Still Refuse to Believe

³⁷ But as many signs as he had performed before them, they did not believe in him,

³⁸ in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”¹

1. A quotation from Isa 53:1

³⁹ For this reason they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said,

⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their¹ eyes and understand with their² hearts and turn, and I heal them.”³

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
3. A quotation from Isa 6:10

⁴¹ Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, and he spoke about him.

⁴² Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it,¹ so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴³ For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.

Jesus’ Final Public Appeal

⁴⁴ But Jesus cried out and said, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

⁴⁵ and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

⁴⁶ I have come as a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

⁴⁷ And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them,¹ I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴⁸ The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me ⌞has commanded me⌟¹ what I should say and what I should speak.

1. Literally “has given me commandment”

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So the things that I say, just as the Father said to me, thus I say.”

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

¹ Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, and¹ having loved his² own in the world, loved them to the end.

1. *Here “and” is supplied in keeping with English style
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

² And as¹ a dinner was taking place, when² the devil had already put into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,

1. *Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was taking place”)
2. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“put”)

³ because he¹ knew that the Father had given him all things into his² hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going away to God,

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

⁴ he got up from the dinner and took off his¹ outer clothing, and taking a towel, tied it² around himself.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁵ Then he poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them¹ dry with the towel ⌞which he had tied around himself⌟.²

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “with which he was girded”

⁶ Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these things.”

⁸ Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet ⌞forever⌟!”¹ Jesus replied to him, “Unless I wash you, you do not have a share with me.”

1. Literally “for the age”

⁹ Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my¹ hands and my² head!”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed ⌞only needs⌟¹ to wash his² feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you.”

1. Literally “does not have need except”
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹¹ (For he knew the one who would betray him; because of this he said, “Not all of you are clean.”)

¹² So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer clothing and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?

¹³ You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you speak correctly, for I am.

¹⁴ If then I—your¹ Lord and Teacher—wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that just as I have done for you, you also do.

¹⁶ Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

¹⁷ If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.

¹⁸ “I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, ‘The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’¹

1. A quotation from Ps 41:9

¹⁹ From now on I am telling you before it happens, in order that when it happens you may believe that I am he.¹

1. *Here the predicate nominative (“he”) is understood, but must be supplied in the translation

²⁰ Truly, truly I say to you, the one who receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.”

Jesus Predicts Judas’ Betrayal

²¹ When he¹ had said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said, “Truly, truly I say to you that one of you will betray me.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

²² The disciples began looking¹ at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.

1. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began looking”)

²³ One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining ⌞close beside⌟¹ Jesus.

1. Literally “in the bosom of” (a position dictated by ancient banqueting practice)

²⁴ So Simon Peter gestured for this one to inquire who it was about whom he was speaking.

²⁵ He leaned back¹ accordingly against Jesus’ chest and² said to him, “Lord, who is it?”

1. Some manuscripts have “Then he leaned back”
2. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“leaned back”) has been translated as a finite verb

²⁶ Jesus replied, “It is he to whom I dip the piece of bread and give it¹ to him.” Then after² dipping the piece of bread, he gave it³⁴ to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“dipping”) which is understood as temporal
3. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
4. Some manuscripts have “after dipping the piece of bread, he took it and gave it”

²⁷ And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you are doing, do quickly!”

²⁸ (Now no one of those reclining at table knew for what reason he said this to him.

²⁹ For some were thinking because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, “Purchase ⌞what we need⌟¹ for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.)

1. Literally “of which we have need”

³⁰ So after he¹ had taken the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had taken”) which is understood as temporal

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

³¹ Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

³² If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately.

³³ Children, yet a little time I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, “Where I am going you cannot come,” now I say also to you.

³⁴ “A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another—just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.”

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied,¹ “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”

1. Some manuscripts have “replied to him”

³⁷ Peter said to him, “Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

³⁸ Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

Jesus’ Farewell Discourse

¹ “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe¹ in God; believe² also in me.

1. Or simply “Believe”; the verb form can be either indicative (e.g., KJV, NAB, NLT) or imperative (e.g., NIV, NRSV, ESV)
2. Like the previous verb “believe” this form could also be either indicative or imperative, though most English versions regard it as imperative

² In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because¹ I am going away to prepare a place for you.

1. A large number of manuscripts, many of them later, lack “because”

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

⁴ And you know the way where I am going.”

⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How are we able to know the way?”

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

⁷ If you had known me, you would have known¹ my Father also. From now on² you know him and have seen him.”

1. Some manuscripts have “If you have known me, you will know”
2. Some manuscripts have “And from now on”

⁸ Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from myself, but the Father residing in me does his works.

¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, believe because of the works themselves.

¹² Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me, the works that I am doing he will do also, and he will do greater works¹ than these because I am going to the Father.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹³ And ⌞whatever⌟¹ you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

1. Literally “anything which”

¹⁴ If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.¹

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you ⌞forever⌟¹—

1. Literally “for the age”

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know him.¹ You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

¹⁹ Yet a little time and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

²¹ The one who has my commandments and keeps them—that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, why¹ is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

1. Some manuscripts have “and why”

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and ⌞will take up residence with him⌟.¹

1. Literally “will make abode with him”

²⁴ The one who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you while¹ residing with you.

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“residing”) which is understood as temporal

²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name—that one will teach you all things, and will remind you of everything that I said to you.

²⁷ “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you—not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them¹ be afraid.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁸ You have heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

²⁹ And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

³⁰ I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has ⌞no power⌟¹ ⌞over⌟² me.

1. Literally “nothing”
2. Literally “in”

³¹ But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here!

The Vine and the Branches

¹ “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

² Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.

³ You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him—this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw them¹ into the fire, and they are burned.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

⁸ My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples.

⁹ “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

¹¹ I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.

¹² This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

¹³ No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.

¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

¹⁷ These things I command you: that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred for the Disciples

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated¹ you.

1. *Here the verb “hated” is an understood repetition of the verb earlier in this verse

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin.

²³ The one who hates me hates my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵ But this happened¹ so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without a reason.’

1. *The phrase “this happened” is not in the Greek text but is implied

²⁶ “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father—that one will testify about me.

²⁷ And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Persecution of Disciples Predicted

¹ “I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away.

² ⌞They will expel you from the synagogue⌟,¹ but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

1. Literally “they will make you expelled from the synagogue”

³ And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me.

Jesus’ Departure and the Coming of the Holy Spirit

⁴ But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them. “And I have not said these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵ But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’

⁶ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.

⁷ But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

⁸ And when he¹ comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“comes”) which is understood as temporal

⁹ concerning sin, because they do not believe in me,

¹⁰ and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you will see me no more,

¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

¹² I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them¹ now.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹³ But when he—the Spirit of truth—comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come.

¹⁴ He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and will proclaim it¹ to you.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁵ Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it¹ to you.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Predicts His Return to the Disciples

¹⁶ “A little while and you will see me no more, and again a little while and you will see me.

¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going away to the Father’?”

¹⁸ So they kept on saying, “What is this that he is saying, ‘A little while’? We do not understand what he is speaking about!”

¹⁹ Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, “Are you deliberating with one another about this—that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?

²⁰ Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy.

²¹ A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when her¹ child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

²² So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

²³ And on that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

Jesus’ Victory Over the World

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figurative sayings. An hour is coming when I will speak to you in figurative sayings no longer, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

²⁷ For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

²⁸ I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said, “Behold, now you are speaking ⌞plainly⌟¹ and are telling us² no figurative saying!

1. Literally “with plainness”
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁰ Now we know that you know everything and do not ⌞need for⌟¹ anyone to ask you questions.² By this we believe that you have come from God.”

1. Literally “have need that”
2. *Here the word “questions” is not in the Greek text but is implied

³¹ Jesus replied to them, “Now do you believe?

³² Behold, an hour is coming—and has come—that you will be scattered each one to his own home,¹ and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

1. Or “to his own things”; or “to his own people” (i.e., family); the Greek text is somewhat ambiguous here

³³ I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”

Jesus Prays to be Glorified

¹ Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, “Father, the hour has come! Glorify your Son, in order that your Son may glorify you—

² just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them—everyone whom you have given him.

³ Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

⁴ I have glorified you on earth by¹ completing the work that you have given me ⌞to do⌟.²

1. *Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“completing”) which is understood as means
2. Literally “that I may do it”

⁵ And now, Father, you glorify me ⌞at your side⌟¹ with the glory that I had ⌞at your side⌟² before the world existed.

1. Literally “by the side of yourself”
2. Literally “by the side of you”

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶ “I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.

⁷ Now they understand that all the things that¹ you have given me are from you,

1. Literally “whatever”

⁸ because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received them¹ and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁹ I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

¹⁰ and all my things are yours, and your things are mine, and I have been glorified in¹ them.

1. Or “by”; or “through”

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are.

¹² When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded them,¹ and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹³ And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth—your word is truth.

¹⁸ Just as you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for them I sanctify myself, so that they themselves also may be sanctified in the truth.

Jesus Prays for the Unity of Believers

²⁰ “And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,

²¹ that they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

²² And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we are one—

²³ I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

²⁴ “Father, those whom you have given to me—I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these men have come to know that you sent me.

²⁶ And I made known to them your name, and will make it¹ known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I may be in them.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested

¹ When¹ Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

² (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.)

³ So Judas, taking the cohort and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

⁴ Then Jesus, because he¹ knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal

⁵ They replied to him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am he.”¹ (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.)

1. *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation

⁶ So when he said to them, “I am he,”¹ ⌞they drew back⌟² and fell to the ground.

1. *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “they went to the back”

⁷ Then he asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

⁸ Jesus replied, “I said to you that I am he!¹ So if you are looking for me, let these men go,”

1. *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation

⁹ in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: “Those whom you have given to me—I have not lost anyone of them.”¹

1. A paraphrase of the statement in John 17:12

¹⁰ Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.)

¹¹ So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into its¹ sheath! The cup that the Father has given me—shall I not drink it?”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

Jesus Taken to Annas

¹² Then the cohort and the military tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up,

¹³ and brought him¹ to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁴ (Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better that one man die for the people.)

Peter Denies Jesus the First Time

¹⁵ So Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. (Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.)

¹⁶ But Peter was standing by the door outside. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

¹⁷ Then the female slave who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You are not also one of the disciples of this man, are you?”¹ He said, “I am not!”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”

¹⁸ (Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also standing there with them and warming himself.)

Jesus Before Annas

¹⁹ So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

²⁰ Jesus replied to him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple courts¹ where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

1. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

²¹ Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these people know what I said.”

²² Now when¹ he had said these things, one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, “Do you reply to the high priest in this way?”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“had said”)

²³ Jesus replied to him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify about what is wrong! But if I have spoken¹ correctly, why do you strike me?”

1. *The phrase “I have spoken” is an implied repetition of the earlier phrase in this verse

²⁴ Then Annas sent him, tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Peter Denies Jesus the Second and Third Times

²⁵ Now Simon Peter was standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of his disciples, are you?”¹ He denied it² and said, “I am not!”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are you”
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁶ One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”

²⁷ So Peter denied it¹ again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Jesus Brought Before Pilate

²⁸ Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor’s residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.

²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

³⁰ They answered and said to him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!”

³¹ So Pilate said to them, “You take him and judge him according to your law!” The Jews said to him, “It is not permitted for us to kill anyone,”

³² in order that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled that he had spoken, indicating by what sort of death he was going to die.

Pilate Questions Jesus

³³ Then Pilate entered again into the governor’s residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

³⁴ Jesus replied, “Do you say this from yourself, or have others said this¹ to you about me?”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁵ Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I?¹ Your people and the chief priests handed you over to me! What have you done?”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “am I”

³⁶ Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here.”

³⁷ Then Pilate said to him, “So then you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”

³⁸ Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And when he¹ had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no basis for an accusation against him.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

³⁹ But it is your custom that I release for you one prisoner¹ at the Passover. So do you want me² to release for you the king of the Jews?”

1. *The word “prisoner” is not in the Greek text, but is implied
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴⁰ Then they shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)¹

1. Or perhaps “robber”

Pilate Attempts to Release Jesus

¹ So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.¹

1. *This verb has causative force in context; Pilate did not personally carry out the sentence

² And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it¹ on his head, and put a purple robe on him,

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³ and were coming up to him and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and were giving him slaps in the face.

⁴ And Pilate came outside again and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing him outside to you, so that you will know that I find no basis for an accusation against him.”

⁵ Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, “Behold the man!”

⁶ So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “You take him and crucify him!¹ For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁷ The Jews replied to him, “We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!”

⁸ So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

⁹ and he entered into the governor’s residence again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

¹⁰ So Pilate said to him, “Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I have authority to crucify you?”

¹¹ Jesus replied to him, “You would not have any authority over me unless it was given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has greater sin.”

¹² From this point on Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, “If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!”

¹³ So Pilate, when he¹ heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat, in the place called The Stone Pavement (but Gabbatha in Aramaic).

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal

¹⁴ (Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, “Behold your king!”

¹⁵ Then those shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests replied, “We do not have a king except Caesar!”

Jesus Is Crucified

¹⁶ So then he handed him over to them in order that he could be crucified. So they took Jesus,

¹⁷ and carrying for himself the cross, he went out to the place called The Place of a Skull (which is called Golgotha in Aramaic),

¹⁸ where they crucified him, and with him two others, ⌞one on each side⌟,¹ and Jesus in the middle.

1. Literally “from here and from here”

¹⁹ And Pilate also wrote a notice and placed it¹ on the cross, and it was written: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁰ So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.

²¹ Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The king of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, I am king of the Jews.’ ”

²² Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing and made four shares—for each soldier a share—and the tunic. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top ⌞in a single piece⌟.)¹

1. Literally “through the whole”

²⁴ So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, to see whose it will be,” so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”¹ Thus the soldiers did these things.

1. A quotation from Ps 22:18

²⁵ Now his mother and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing near the cross of Jesus.

²⁶ So Jesus, seeing his¹ mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to his² mother, “Woman, behold your son!”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Jesus Dies on the Cross

²⁸ After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹ A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and¹ brought it² to his mouth.

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“put”) has been translated as a finite verb
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁰ Then when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed,”¹ and bowing his² head, he gave up his³ spirit.

1. Or (traditionally) “it is finished”
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
3. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

³¹ Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), asked Pilate that their legs could be broken and they could be taken away.

³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

³³ But when they¹ came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal

³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.

³⁵ And the one who has seen it¹ has testified, and his testimony is true, and that person knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁶ For these things happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not a bone of his will be broken.”¹

1. A quotation from Exod 12:46, Num 9:12, and Ps 34:20

³⁷ And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”¹

1. A quotation from Zech 12:10

Jesus Is Buried

³⁸ And after these things, Joseph who was from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but a secret one for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed it,¹ so he came and took away his body.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁹ And Nicodemus—the one who had come to him formerly at night—also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.¹

1. The Greek term refers to a Roman pound, 327.45 grams (approximately 12 ounces)

⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews’ custom to prepare for burial.

⁴¹ Now there was a garden at the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet buried.

⁴² So there, on account of the day of preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was close by, they buried Jesus.

Jesus Is Raised

¹ Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it¹ was still dark, and saw the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)

² So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they have put him!”

³ Then Peter and the other disciple went out and were going to the tomb.

⁴ And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and came to the tomb first.

⁵ And bending over to look, he saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, though he did not go in.

⁶ Then Simon Peter also came following him, and he went into the tomb and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,

⁷ and the facecloth that was on his head—not lying with the strips of linen cloth, but folded up separately in one place.

⁸ So then the other disciple who had come to the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.

⁹ (For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹⁰ Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.¹

1. *The phrase “own homes” is not in the Greek text but is implied

¹¹ But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she bent over to look into the tomb,

¹² and she saw two angels in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying.

¹³ And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him!”

¹⁴ When she¹ had said these things, she turned ⌞around⌟² and saw Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
2. Literally “to the back”

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She thought that it was the gardener, and¹ said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“thought”) has been translated as a finite verb

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned around and¹ said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni” (which means “Teacher”).

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“turned around”) has been translated as a finite verb

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.’ ”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and¹ announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and he had said these things to her.

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the participle (“announced”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

¹⁹ Now when it¹ was evening on that day—the first day of the week—and the doors had been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace to you.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)

²⁰ And when he¹ had said this, he showed his² hands and his³ side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced when they⁴ saw the Lord.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
3. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
4. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal

²¹ So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

²² And when he¹ had said this, he breathed on them² and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²³ If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins¹ of any, they are retained.”

1. *An understood repetition of the phrase from earlier in the verse

Thomas Doubts But Later Believes

²⁴ Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus,¹ was not with them when Jesus came.

1. The Greek term means “the Twin”

²⁵ So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!”

²⁶ And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Although¹ the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, “Peace to you.”

1. *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had been shut”) which is understood as concessive

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, “Place your finger here and see my hands, and place your hand and put it¹ into my side. And do not be unbelieving, but believing!”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹ Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, have you believed? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

Why This Book Was Written

³⁰ Now Jesus also performed many other signs in the presence of the disciples¹ which are not recorded in this book,

1. Some manuscripts have “his disciples”

³¹ but these things are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by¹ believing you may have life in his name.

1. *Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“believing”) which is understood as means

Jesus Appears to the Disciples in Galilee

¹ After these things Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now he revealed himself¹ in this way:

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

² Simon Peter and Thomas (who was called Didymus)¹ and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two others of his disciples were together.

1. The Greek term means “the Twin”

³ Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing!” They said to him, “We also are coming with you.” They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing.

⁴ Now when it¹ was already early morning, Jesus stood on the beach. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)

⁵ So Jesus said to them, “Children, you do not have any fish to eat, do you?¹ They answered him, “No.”

1. *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “do you”

⁶ And he said to them, “Throw the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”¹ So they threw it,² and were no longer able to haul it in from the large number of the fish.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁷ Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he¹ heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked)² and threw himself into the sea.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. I.e., “he was naked underneath the outer garment,” which he tucked into his belt; alternatively, this could mean “for he was stripped for work”

⁸ But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net of fish, because they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits¹ away.

1. Approximately 100 yards or 92 meters, based on a cubit of 18 inches.

⁹ So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire laid there, and a fish lying on it,¹ and bread.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁰ Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just now caught.”

¹¹ So Simon Peter got into the boat¹ and hauled the net to the land, full of large fish—one hundred fifty-three—and although there² were so many, the net was not torn.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as concessive

¹² Jesus said to them, “Come, eat breakfast!” But none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they¹ knew that it was the Lord.

1. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal

¹³ Jesus came and took the bread and gave it¹ to them, and the fish likewise.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁴ This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he¹ had been raised from the dead.

1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had been raised”) which is understood as temporal

Peter Is Restored Three Times

¹⁵ Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs!”

¹⁶ He said to him again a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Shepherd my sheep!”

¹⁷ He said to him a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed because he said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything! You know that I love you!” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep!

¹⁸ Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you tied your clothes¹ around yourself and walked wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will tie you up and carry you where you do not want to go.²

1. *The words “your clothes” are not in the Greek text but are implied
2. *The words “to go” are not in the Greek text but are implied

¹⁹ (Now he said this to indicate by what kind of death he would glorify God.) And after he¹ had said this, he said to him, “Follow me!”

1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

Peter and the Other Disciple Jesus Loved

²⁰ Peter turned and¹ saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them² (who also leaned back on his chest at the dinner and said, “Lord, who is the one betraying you?”)

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“turned”) has been translated as a finite verb
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²¹ So when he¹ saw this one, Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, but what about this one?”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal

²² Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that¹ to you? You follow me!”

1. *The words “is that” are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style

²³ So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that¹ to you?”

1. *The words “is that” are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style

A Concluding Word of Testimony

²⁴ This is the disciple who is testifying about these things, and who has written down these things. And we know that his testimony is true.

²⁵ Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which—if they were written down one after the other—I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.