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John 8:27-29
New English Translation
John 8:27-29
New English Translation
27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)[a]
28 Then Jesus said,[b] “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,[c] and I do nothing on my own initiative,[d] but I speak just what the Father taught me.[e] 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,[f] because I always do those things that please him.”
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- John 8:27 sn They did not understand…about his Father is a parenthetical note by the author. This type of comment, intended for the benefit of the reader, is typical of the “omniscient author” convention adopted by the author, who is writing from a postresurrection point of view. He writes with the benefit of later knowledge that those who originally heard Jesus’ words would not have had.
- John 8:28 tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all mss).
- John 8:28 tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.
- John 8:28 tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”
- John 8:28 tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”
- John 8:29 tn That is, “he has not abandoned me.”
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