Yohanes 5:21

5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, ¹  so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. ² 

Yohanes 9:2

9:2 His disciples asked him, ³  “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man ⁴  or his parents?” ⁵ 

Yohanes 13:6

13:6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter ⁶  said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash ⁷  my feet?”

Yohanes 18:32

18:32 (This happened ⁸  to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated ⁹  what kind of death he was going to die. ¹⁰ )

[5:21]  ¹ tn Grk “and makes them live.”

[5:21]  ² tn Grk “the Son makes whomever he wants to live.”

[9:2]  ³ tn Grk “asked him, saying.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “this one.”

[9:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “in order that he should be born blind.”

[9:2]  sn The disciples assumed that sin (regardless of who committed it) was the cause of the man’s blindness. This was a common belief in Judaism; the rabbis used Ezek 18:20 to prove there was no death without sin, and Ps 89:33 to prove there was no punishment without guilt (the Babylonian Talmud, b. Shabbat 55a, although later than the NT, illustrates this). Thus in this case the sin must have been on the part of the man’s parents, or during his own prenatal existence. Song Rabbah 1:41 (another later rabbinic work) stated that when a pregnant woman worshiped in a heathen temple the unborn child also committed idolatry. This is only one example of how, in rabbinic Jewish thought, an unborn child was capable of sinning.

[13:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Peter) is specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “do you wash” or “are you washing.”

[18:32]  ⁸ tn The words “This happened” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[18:32]  ⁹ tn Or “making clear.”

[18:32]  ¹⁰ sn A reference to John 12:32.