Yohanes 3:14

3:14 Just as ¹  Moses lifted up the serpent ²  in the wilderness, ³  so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ⁴ 

Yohanes 5:21

5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, ⁵  so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. ⁶ 

Yohanes 5:26

5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Yohanes 13:25

13:25 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved ⁷  leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

Yohanes 21:1

Jesus’ Appearance to the Disciples in Galilee

21:1 After this ⁸  Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. ⁹  Now this is how he did so. ¹⁰ 

[3:14]  ¹ tn Grk “And just as.”

[3:14]  ² sn Or the snake, referring to the bronze serpent mentioned in Num 21:9.

[3:14]  ³ sn An allusion to Num 21:5-9.

[3:14]  ⁴ sn So must the Son of Man be lifted up. This is ultimately a prediction of Jesus’ crucifixion. Nicodemus could not have understood this, but John’s readers, the audience to whom the Gospel is addressed, certainly could have (compare the wording of John 12:32). In John, being lifted up refers to one continuous action of ascent, beginning with the cross but ending at the right hand of the Father. Step 1 is Jesus’ death; step 2 is his resurrection; and step 3 is the ascension back to heaven. It is the upward swing of the “pendulum” which began with the incarnation, the descent of the Word become flesh from heaven to earth (cf. Paul in Phil 2:5-11). See also the note on the title Son of Man in 1:51.

[5:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “and makes them live.”

[5:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “the Son makes whomever he wants to live.”

[13:25]  ⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the disciple Jesus loved) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:1]  ⁸ tn The time reference indicated by μετὰ ταῦτα (meta tauta) is indefinite, in comparison with the specific “after eight days” (μεθ᾿ ἡμέρας ὀκτώ, meq’ Jhmera" oktw) between the two postresurrection appearances of Jesus in 20:26.

[21:1]  ⁹ sn The Sea of Tiberias is another name for the Sea of Galilee (see 6:1).

[21:1]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “how he revealed himself.”