Yohanes 8:52

8:52 Then ¹  the Judeans ²  responded, ³  “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! ⁴  Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet ⁵  you say, ‘If anyone obeys ⁶  my teaching, ⁷  he will never experience ⁸  death.’ ⁹ 

Yohanes 11:31

11:31 Then the people ¹⁰  who were with Mary ¹¹  in the house consoling her saw her ¹²  get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep ¹³  there.

Yohanes 15:15

15:15 I no longer call you slaves, ¹⁴  because the slave does not understand ¹⁵  what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything ¹⁶  I heard ¹⁷  from my Father.

[8:52]  ¹ 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]  ² 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]  ³ tn Grk “said to him.”

[8:52]  ⁴ tn Grk “you have a demon.”

[8:52]  ⁵ tn “Yet” has been supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.

[8:52]  ⁶ tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”

[8:52]  ⁷ tn Grk “my word.”

[8:52]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Grk “he will never taste of death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.

[11:31]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the Judeans”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the friends, acquaintances, and relatives of Lazarus or his sisters who had come to mourn, since the Jewish religious authorities are specifically mentioned as a separate group in John 11:46-47. See also the notes on the phrase “the Jewish leaders” in v. 8 and “the Jewish people of the region” in v. 19.

[11:31]  ¹¹ tn Grk “her”; the referent (Mary) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:31]  ¹² tn Grk “Mary”; the proper name (Mary) has been replaced with the pronoun (her) in keeping with conventional English style, to avoid repetition.

[11:31]  ¹³ tn Or “to mourn” (referring to the loud wailing or crying typical of public mourning in that culture).

[15:15]  ¹⁴ tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

[15:15]  ¹⁵ tn Or “does not know.”

[15:15]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “all things.”

[15:15]  ¹⁷ tn Or “learned.”