Yohanes 4:25

4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); ¹  “whenever he ²  comes, he will tell ³  us everything.” ⁴ 

Yohanes 15:5

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains ⁵  in me – and I in him – bears ⁶  much fruit, ⁷  because apart from me you can accomplish ⁸  nothing.

[4:25]  ¹ tn Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “the one who has been anointed.”

[4:25]  sn The one called Christ. This is a parenthetical statement by the author. See the note on Christ in 1:20.

[4:25]  ² tn Grk “that one.”

[4:25]  ³ tn Or “he will announce to us.”

[4:25]  ⁴ tn Grk “all things.”

[15:5]  ⁵ tn Or “resides.”

[15:5]  ⁶ tn Or “yields.”

[15:5]  ⁷ tn Grk “in him, this one bears much fruit.” The pronoun “this one” has been omitted from the translation because it is redundant according to contemporary English style.

[15:5]  sn Many interpret the imagery of fruit here and in 15:2, 4 in terms of good deeds or character qualities, relating it to passages elsewhere in the NT like Matt 3:8 and 7:20, Rom 6:22, Gal 5:22, etc. This is not necessarily inaccurate, but one must remember that for John, to have life at all is to bear fruit, while one who does not bear fruit shows that he does not have the life (once again, conduct is the clue to paternity, as in John 8:41; compare also 1 John 4:20).

[15:5]  ⁸ tn Or “do.”