Yohanes 6:53

6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ²  you have no life ³  in yourselves.

Yohanes 7:4

7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ⁴  does anything in secret. ⁵  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

Yohanes 10:12

10:12 The hired hand, ⁶  who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons ⁷  the sheep and runs away. ⁸  So the wolf attacks ⁹  the sheep and scatters them.

Yohanes 17:13

17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience ¹⁰  my joy completed ¹¹  in themselves.

Yohanes 18:18

18:18 (Now the slaves ¹²  and the guards ¹³  were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold. ¹⁴  Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.) ¹⁵ 

[6:53]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[6:53]  ² sn Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood. These words are at the heart of the discourse on the Bread of Life, and have created great misunderstanding among interpreters. Anyone who is inclined toward a sacramental viewpoint will almost certainly want to take these words as a reference to the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, or the Eucharist, because of the reference to eating and drinking. But this does not automatically follow: By anyone’s definition there must be a symbolic element to the eating which Jesus speaks of in the discourse, and once this is admitted, it is better to understand it here, as in the previous references in the passage, to a personal receiving of (or appropriation of) Christ and his work.

[6:53]  ³ tn That is, “no eternal life” (as opposed to physical life).

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Or “seeks to be well known.”

[7:4]  ⁵ sn No one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret means, in effect: “if you’re going to perform signs to authenticate yourself as Messiah, you should do them at Jerusalem.” (Jerusalem is where mainstream Jewish apocalyptic tradition held that Messiah would appear.)

[10:12]  ⁶ sn Jesus contrasts the behavior of the shepherd with that of the hired hand. This is a worker who is simply paid to do a job; he has no other interest in the sheep and is certainly not about to risk his life for them. When they are threatened, he simply runs away.

[10:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “leaves.”

[10:12]  ⁸ tn Or “flees.”

[10:12]  ⁹ tn Or “seizes.” The more traditional rendering, “snatches,” has the idea of seizing something by force and carrying it off, which is certainly possible here. However, in the sequence in John 10:12, this action precedes the scattering of the flock of sheep, so “attacks” is preferable.

[17:13]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “they may have.”

[17:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “fulfilled.”

[18:18]  ¹² tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

[18:18]  ¹³ tn That is, the “guards of the chief priests” as distinguished from the household slaves of Annas.

[18:18]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “because it was cold, and they were warming themselves.”

[18:18]  ¹⁵ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.