Yohanes 9:17

9:17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, ¹  “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” ²  “He is a prophet,” the man replied. ³ 

Yohanes 15:6

15:6 If anyone does not remain ⁴  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ⁵  and are burned up. ⁶ 

[9:17]  ¹ tn Grk “the blind man.”

[9:17]  ² tn Grk “since he opened your eyes” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).

[9:17]  ³ tn Grk “And he said, ‘He is a prophet.’”

[9:17]  sn At this point the man, pressed by the Pharisees, admitted there was something special about Jesus. But here, since prophet is anarthrous (is not accompanied by the Greek article) and since in his initial reply in 9:11-12 the man showed no particular insight into the true identity of Jesus, this probably does not refer to the prophet of Deut 18:15, but merely to an unusual person who is capable of working miracles. The Pharisees had put this man on the spot, and he felt compelled to say something about Jesus, but he still didn’t have a clear conception of who Jesus was, so he labeled him a “prophet.”

[15:6]  ⁴ tn Or “reside.”

[15:6]  ⁵ sn Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire. The author does not tell who it is who does the gathering and throwing into the fire. Although some claim that realized eschatology is so prevalent in the Fourth Gospel that no references to final eschatology appear at all, the fate of these branches seems to point to the opposite. The imagery is almost certainly that of eschatological judgment, and recalls some of the OT vine imagery which involves divine rejection and judgment of disobedient Israel (Ezek 15:4-6, 19:12).

[15:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “they gather them up and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”