Yohanes 1:3

1:3 All things were created ¹  by him, and apart from him not one thing was created ²  that has been created. ³ 

Yohanes 1:10

1:10 He was in the world, and the world was created ⁴  by him, but ⁵  the world did not recognize ⁶  him.

Yohanes 3:33

3:33 The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful. ⁷ 

Yohanes 5:38

5:38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

Yohanes 15:25

15:25 Now this happened ⁸  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ⁹ 

Yohanes 18:32

18:32 (This happened ¹⁰  to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated ¹¹  what kind of death he was going to die. ¹² )

[1:3]  ¹ tn Or “made”; Grk “came into existence.”

[1:3]  ² tn Or “made”; Grk “nothing came into existence.”

[1:3]  ³ tc There is a major punctuation problem here: Should this relative clause go with v. 3 or v. 4? The earliest mss have no punctuation (Ì^66,75* א* A B Δ al). Many of the later mss which do have punctuation place it before the phrase, thus putting it with v. 4 (Ì^75c C D L W^s 050* pc). NA²⁵ placed the phrase in v. 3; NA²⁶ moved the words to the beginning of v. 4. In a detailed article K. Aland defended the change (“Eine Untersuchung zu Johannes 1, 3-4. Über die Bedeutung eines Punktes,” ZNW 59 [1968]: 174-209). He sought to prove that the attribution of ὃ γέγονεν (}o gegonen) to v. 3 began to be carried out in the 4th century in the Greek church. This came out of the Arian controversy, and was intended as a safeguard for doctrine. The change was unknown in the West. Aland is probably correct in affirming that the phrase was attached to v. 4 by the Gnostics and the Eastern Church; only when the Arians began to use the phrase was it attached to v. 3. But this does not rule out the possibility that, by moving the words from v. 4 to v. 3, one is restoring the original reading. Understanding the words as part of v. 3 is natural and adds to the emphasis which is built up there, while it also gives a terse, forceful statement in v. 4. On the other hand, taking the phrase ὃ γέγονεν with v. 4 gives a complicated expression: C. K. Barrett says that both ways of understanding v. 4 with ὃ γέγονεν included “are almost impossibly clumsy” (St. John, 157): “That which came into being – in it the Word was life”; “That which came into being – in the Word was its life.” The following stylistic points should be noted in the solution of this problem: (1) John frequently starts sentences with ἐν (en); (2) he repeats frequently (“nothing was created that has been created”); (3) 5:26 and 6:53 both give a sense similar to v. 4 if it is understood without the phrase; (4) it makes far better Johannine sense to say that in the Word was life than to say that the created universe (what was made, ὃ γέγονεν) was life in him. In conclusion, the phrase is best taken with v. 3. Schnackenburg, Barrett, Carson, Haenchen, Morris, KJV, and NIV concur (against Brown, Beasley-Murray, and NEB). The arguments of R. Schnackenburg, St. John, 1:239-40, are particularly persuasive.

[1:3]  tn Or “made”; Grk “that has come into existence.”

[1:10]  ⁴ tn Or “was made”; Grk “came into existence.”

[1:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “and,” but in context this is an adversative use of καί (kai) and is thus translated “but.”

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Or “know.”

[3:33]  ⁷ tn Or “is true.”

[15:25]  ⁸ tn The words “this happened” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to complete an ellipsis.

[15:25]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Ps 35:19 and Ps 69:4. As a technical term law (νόμος, nomos) is usually restricted to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT), but here it must have a broader reference, since the quotation is from Ps 35:19 or Ps 69:4. The latter is the more likely source for the quoted words, since it is cited elsewhere in John’s Gospel (2:17 and 19:29, in both instances in contexts associated with Jesus’ suffering and death).

[18:32]  ¹⁰ tn The words “This happened” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[18:32]  ¹¹ tn Or “making clear.”

[18:32]  ¹² sn A reference to John 12:32.