Yohanes 8:17

8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ¹ 

Yohanes 12:34

12:34 Then the crowd responded, ²  “We have heard from the law that the Christ ³  will remain forever. ⁴  How ⁵  can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Yohanes 15:25

15:25 Now this happened ⁶  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ⁷ 

[8:17]  ¹ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[12:34]  ² tn Grk “Then the crowd answered him.”

[12:34]  ³ tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

[12:34]  sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.

[12:34]  ⁴ tn Probably an allusion to Ps 89:35-37. It is difficult to pinpoint the passage in the Mosaic law to which the crowd refers. The ones most often suggested are Ps 89:36-37, Ps 110:4, Isa 9:7, Ezek 37:25, and Dan 7:14. None of these passages are in the Pentateuch per se, but “law” could in common usage refer to the entire OT (compare Jesus’ use in John 10:34). Of the passages mentioned, Ps 89:36-37 is the most likely candidate. This verse speaks of David’s “seed” remaining forever. Later in the same psalm, v. 51 speaks of the “anointed” (Messiah), and the psalm was interpreted messianically in both the NT (Acts 13:22, Rev 1:5, 3:14) and in the rabbinic literature (Genesis Rabbah 97).

[12:34]  ⁵ tn Grk “And how”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.

[15:25]  ⁶ tn The words “this happened” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to complete an ellipsis.

[15:25]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 35:19 and Ps 69:4. As a technical term law (νόμος, nomos) is usually restricted to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT), but here it must have a broader reference, since the quotation is from Ps 35:19 or Ps 69:4. The latter is the more likely source for the quoted words, since it is cited elsewhere in John’s Gospel (2:17 and 19:29, in both instances in contexts associated with Jesus’ suffering and death).