Yohanes 6:44

6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ¹  and I will raise him up at the last day.

Yohanes 6:65

6:65 So Jesus added, ²  “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.” ³ 

Yohanes 7:4

7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ⁴  does anything in secret. ⁵  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

Yohanes 7:19

7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps ⁶  the law! Why do you want ⁷  to kill me?”

Yohanes 7:30

7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, ⁸  but no one laid a hand on him, because his time ⁹  had not yet come.

Yohanes 8:11

8:11 She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]] ¹⁰ 

Yohanes 8:20

8:20 (Jesus ¹¹  spoke these words near the offering box ¹²  while he was teaching in the temple courts. ¹³  No one seized him because his time ¹⁴  had not yet come.) ¹⁵ 

Yohanes 9:4

9:4 We must perform the deeds ¹⁶  of the one who sent me ¹⁷  as long as ¹⁸  it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Yohanes 10:29

10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ¹⁹  and no one can snatch ²⁰  them from my Father’s hand.

Yohanes 14:6

14:6 Jesus replied, ²¹  “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. ²²  No one comes to the Father except through me.

Yohanes 19:41

19:41 Now at the place where Jesus ²³  was crucified ²⁴  there was a garden, ²⁵  and in the garden ²⁶  was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried. ²⁷ 

[6:44]  ¹ tn Or “attracts him,” or “pulls him.” The word is used of pulling or dragging, often by force. It is even used once of magnetic attraction (A. Oepke, TDNT 2:503).

[6:44]  sn The Father who sent me draws him. The author never specifically explains what this “drawing” consists of. It is evidently some kind of attraction; whether it is binding and irresistible or not is not mentioned. But there does seem to be a parallel with 6:65, where Jesus says that no one is able to come to him unless the Father has allowed it. This apparently parallels the use of Isaiah by John to reflect the spiritual blindness of the Jewish leaders (see the quotations from Isaiah in John 9:41 and 12:39-40).

[6:65]  ² tn Grk “And he said”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:65]  ³ tn Grk “unless it has been permitted to him by the Father.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Or “seeks to be well known.”

[7:4]  ⁵ sn No one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret means, in effect: “if you’re going to perform signs to authenticate yourself as Messiah, you should do them at Jerusalem.” (Jerusalem is where mainstream Jewish apocalyptic tradition held that Messiah would appear.)

[7:19]  ⁶ tn Or “accomplishes”; Grk “does.”

[7:19]  ⁷ tn Grk “seek.”

[7:30]  ⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:30]  sn Here the response is on the part of the crowd, who tried to seize Jesus. This is apparently distinct from the attempted arrest by the authorities mentioned in 7:32.

[7:30]  ⁹ tn Grk “his hour.”

[8:11]  ¹⁰ tc The earliest and best mss do not contain 7:53–8:11 (see note on 7:53).

[8:20]  ¹¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:20]  ¹² tn The term γαζοφυλάκιον (gazofulakion) can be translated “treasury” or “treasure room” in this context. BDAG 186 s.v. 1 notes, “It can be taken in this sense J 8:20 (sing.) in (or at) the treasury.” BDAG 186 s.v. 2 argues that the occurrences of this word in the synoptic gospels also refer to the treasury: “For Mk 12:41, 43; Lk 21:1 the mng. contribution box or receptacle is attractive. Acc. to Mishnah, Shekalim 6, 5 there were in the temple 13 such receptacles in the form of trumpets. But even in these passages the general sense of ‘treasury’ is prob., for the contributions would go [into] the treasury via the receptacles.” Based upon the extra-biblical evidence (see sn following), however, the translation opts to refer to the actual receptacles and not the treasury itself.

[8:20]  sn The offering box probably refers to the receptacles in the temple forecourt by the Court of Women used to collect freewill offerings. These are mentioned by Josephus, J. W. 5.5.2 (5.200), 6.5.2 (6.282); Ant. 19.6.1 (19.294); and in 1 Macc 14:49 and 2 Macc 3:6, 24, 28, 40 (see also Mark 12:41; Luke 21:1).

[8:20]  ¹³ tn Grk “the temple.”

[8:20]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “his hour.”

[8:20]  ¹⁵ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[9:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “We must work the works.”

[9:4]  ¹⁷ tn Or “of him who sent me” (God).

[9:4]  ¹⁸ tn Or “while.”

[10:29]  ¹⁹ tn Or “is superior to all.”

[10:29]  ²⁰ tn Or “no one can seize.”

[14:6]  ²¹ tn Grk “Jesus said to him.”

[14:6]  ²² tn Or “I am the way, even the truth and the life.”

[19:41]  ²³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:41]  ²⁴ sn See the note on Crucify in 19:6.

[19:41]  ²⁵ tn Or “an orchard.”

[19:41]  ²⁶ tn Or “orchard.”

[19:41]  ²⁷ tn Grk “been placed.”