Yohanes 4:9

4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew ¹  – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water ²  to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common ³  with Samaritans.) ⁴ 

Yohanes 8:49

8:49 Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, ⁵  but I honor my Father – and yet ⁶  you dishonor me.

Yohanes 9:28

9:28 They ⁷  heaped insults ⁸  on him, saying, ⁹  “You are his disciple! ¹⁰  We are disciples of Moses!

[4:9]  ¹ tn Or “a Judean.” Here BDAG 478 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαίος 2.a states, “Judean (with respect to birth, nationality, or cult).” The same term occurs in the plural later in this verse. In one sense “Judean” would work very well in the translation here, since the contrast is between residents of the two geographical regions. However, since in the context of this chapter the discussion soon becomes a religious rather than a territorial one (cf. vv. 19-26), the translation “Jew” has been retained here and in v. 22.

[4:9]  ² tn “Water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).

[4:9]  ³ tn D. Daube (“Jesus and the Samaritan Woman: the Meaning of συγχράομαι [Jn 4:7ff],” JBL 69 [1950]: 137-47) suggests this meaning.

[4:9]  sn The background to the statement use nothing in common is the general assumption among Jews that the Samaritans were ritually impure or unclean. Thus a Jew who used a drinking vessel after a Samaritan had touched it would become ceremonially unclean.

[4:9]  ⁴ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[8:49]  ⁵ tn Grk “I do not have a demon.”

[8:49]  ⁶ tn “Yet” is supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.

[9:28]  ⁷ tn Grk “And they.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[9:28]  ⁸ tn The Greek word means “to insult strongly” or “slander.”

[9:28]  ⁹ tn Grk “and said.”

[9:28]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “You are that one’s disciple.”