Yohanes 11:13

11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about ¹  his death, but they ²  thought he had been talking about real sleep.) ³ 

Yohanes 5:24

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴  the one who hears ⁵  my message ⁶  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ⁷  but has crossed over from death to life.

Yohanes 8:52

8:52 Then ⁸  the Judeans ⁹  responded, ¹⁰  “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! ¹¹  Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet ¹²  you say, ‘If anyone obeys ¹³  my teaching, ¹⁴  he will never experience ¹⁵  death.’ ¹⁶ 

[11:13]  ¹ tn Or “speaking about.”

[11:13]  ² tn Grk “these.”

[11:13]  ³ tn Grk “the sleep of slumber”; this is a redundant expression to emphasize physical sleep as opposed to death.

[11:13]  sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[5:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[5:24]  ⁵ tn Or “obeys.”

[5:24]  ⁶ tn Or “word.”

[5:24]  ⁷ tn Grk “and does not come into judgment.”

[8:52]  ⁸ tc ‡ Important and early witnesses (Ì⁶⁶ א B C W Θ 579 it) lack the conjunction here, while other witnesses read οὖν (oun, “therefore”; Ì⁷⁵ D L Ψ 070 Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat). This conjunction occurs in John some 200 times, far more than in any other NT book. Even though the most important Johannine papyrus (Ì⁷⁵) has the conjunction, the combination of Ì⁶⁶ א B for the omission is even stronger. Further, the reading seems to be a predictable scribal emendation. In particular, οὖν is frequently used with the plural of εἶπον (eipon, “they said”) in John (in this chapter alone, note vv. 13, 39, 48, 57, and possibly 41). On balance, it is probably best to consider the shorter reading as authentic, even though “Then” is virtually required in translation for English stylistic reasons. NA²⁷ has the conjunction in brackets, indicating some doubt as to its authenticity.

[8:52]  ⁹ tn Grk “the Jews.” See the note on this term in v. 31. Here, as in vv. 31 and 48, the phrase refers to the Jewish people in Jerusalem (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e) who had been listening to Jesus’ teaching in the temple courts (8:20) and had initially believed his claim to be the Messiah (cf. 8:31).

[8:52]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “said to him.”

[8:52]  ¹¹ tn Grk “you have a demon.”

[8:52]  ¹² tn “Yet” has been supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.

[8:52]  ¹³ tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”

[8:52]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “my word.”

[8:52]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “will never taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).

[8:52]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “he will never taste of death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.