John 7:18

7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ¹  desires ²  to receive honor ³  for himself; the one who desires ⁴  the honor ⁵  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ⁶  and there is no unrighteousness in him.

John 8:53

8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ⁷  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

John 9:9

9:9 Some people said, ⁸  “This is the man!” ⁹  while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” ¹⁰  The man himself ¹¹  kept insisting, “I am the one!” ¹² 

John 12:49

12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, ¹³  but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me ¹⁴  what I should say and what I should speak.

John 14:24

14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey ¹⁵  my words. And the word ¹⁶  you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

John 14:27

14:27 “Peace I leave with you; ¹⁷  my peace I give to you; I do not give it ¹⁸  to you as the world does. ¹⁹  Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage. ²⁰ 

John 16:33

16:33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, ²¹  but take courage ²²  – I have conquered the world.” ²³ 

John 18:11

18:11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?” ²⁴ 

John 21:25

21:25 There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, ²⁵  I suppose the whole world ²⁶  would not have room for the books that would be written. ²⁷ 

¹ tn Grk “who speaks from himself.”

² tn Or “seeks.”

³ tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

⁴ tn Or “seeks.”

⁵ tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

⁶ tn Or “is truthful”; Grk “is true.”

⁷ 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?”).

¹³ tn Grk “Others were saying.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “This is the one.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “No, but he is like him.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “That one”; the referent (the man himself) is specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Grk “I am he.”

¹⁹ tn Grk “I have not spoken from myself.”

²⁰ tn Grk “has given me commandment.”

²⁵ tn Or “does not keep.”

²⁶ tn Or “the message.”

³¹ sn Peace I leave with you. In spite of appearances, this verse does not introduce a new subject (peace). Jesus will use the phrase as a greeting to his disciples after his resurrection (20:19, 21, 26). It is here a reflection of the Hebrew shalom as a farewell. But Jesus says he leaves peace with his disciples. This should probably be understood ultimately in terms of the indwelling of the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, who has been the topic of the preceding verses. It is his presence, after Jesus has left the disciples and finally returned to the Father, which will remain with them and comfort them.

³² tn The pronoun “it” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context.

³³ tn Grk “not as the world gives do I give to you.”

³⁴ tn Or “distressed or fearful and cowardly.”

³⁷ tn The one Greek term θλῖψις (qliyis) has been translated by an English hendiadys (two terms that combine for one meaning) “trouble and suffering.” For modern English readers “tribulation” is no longer clearly understandable.

³⁸ tn Or “but be courageous.”

³⁹ tn Or “I am victorious over the world,” or “I have overcome the world.”

⁴³ tn Grk “The cup that the Father has given me to drink, shall I not drink it?” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to reflect contemporary English style.

⁴⁹ tn Grk “written”; the word “down” is supplied in keeping with contemporary English idiom.

⁵⁰ tn Grk “the world itself.”

⁵¹ tc Although the majority of mss (C² Θ Ψ Ë¹³ Ï lat) conclude this Gospel with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”), such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, excellent and early witnesses, as well as a few others (א A B C*^,3 D W 1 33 pc it), lack the particle, rendering no doubt as to how this Gospel originally ended.