Yohanes 10:12

10:12 The hired hand, ¹  who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons ²  the sheep and runs away. ³  So the wolf attacks ⁴  the sheep and scatters them.

Yohanes 17:14

17:14 I have given them your word, ⁵  and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, ⁶  just as I do not belong to the world. ⁷ 

Yohanes 18:17

18:17 The girl ⁸  who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You’re not one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” ⁹  He replied, ¹⁰  “I am not.”

[10:12]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Grk “leaves.”

[10:12]  ³ tn Or “flees.”

[10:12]  ⁴ 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.

[17:14]  ⁵ tn Or “your message.”

[17:14]  ⁶ tn Grk “because they are not of the world.”

[17:14]  ⁷ tn Grk “just as I am not of the world.”

[18:17]  ⁸ tn Grk “slave girl.” Since the descriptive term “slave girl” was introduced in the translation in the previous verse, it would be redundant to repeat the full expression here.

[18:17]  ⁹ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).

[18:17]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “He said.”