Yohanes 6:24

6:24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats ¹  and came to Capernaum ²  looking for Jesus.

Yohanes 19:17

19:17 and carrying his own cross ³  he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” ⁴  (called in Aramaic ⁵  Golgotha). ⁶ 

Yohanes 19:39

19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus ⁷  at night, ⁸  accompanied Joseph, ⁹  carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes ¹⁰  weighing about seventy-five pounds. ¹¹ 

[6:24]  ¹ tn Or “embarked in the boats.”

[6:24]  ² map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.

[19:17]  ³ tn Or “carrying the cross by himself.”

[19:17]  sn As was customary practice in a Roman crucifixion, the prisoner was made to carry his own cross. In all probability this was only the crossbeam, called in Latin the patibulum, since the upright beam usually remained in the ground at the place of execution. According to Matt 27:32 and Mark 15:21, the soldiers forced Simon to take the cross; Luke 23:26 states that the cross was placed on Simon so that it might be carried behind Jesus. A reasonable explanation of all this is that Jesus started out carrying the cross until he was no longer able to do so, at which point Simon was forced to take over.

[19:17]  ⁴ sn Jesus was led out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” where he was to be crucified. It is clear from v. 20 that this was outside the city. The Latin word for the Greek κρανίον (kranion) is calvaria. Thus the English word “Calvary” is a transliteration of the Latin rather than a NT place name (cf. Luke 23:33 in the KJV).

[19:17]  ⁵ tn Grk “in Hebrew.”

[19:17]  ⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[19:39]  ⁷ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:39]  ⁸ sn See John 3:1-21.

[19:39]  ⁹ tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.

[19:39]  ¹⁰ sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.

[19:39]  ¹¹ sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.