John 1:25

1:25 So they asked John,¹ “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ,² nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

John 5:12

5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat³ and walk’?”⁴

John 9:19

9:19 They asked the parents,⁵ “Is this your son, whom you say⁶ was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

John 9:40

9:40 Some of the Pharisees⁷ who were with him heard this⁸ and asked him,⁹ “We are not blind too, are we?”¹⁰

John 13:25

13:25 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved¹¹ leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

¹tn Grk “And they asked him, and said to him”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity, and the phrase has been simplified in the translation to “So they asked John.”

²tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.

³tc While a number of mss, especially the later ones (A^c C³ D Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 33 Ï latt sy), include the words τον κραβ(β)ατ(τ)ον σου (ton krab(b)at(t)on sou, “your mat”) here, the earliest and best (Ì^66,75 א B C* L) do not. Nevertheless, in the translation, it is necessary to supply the words due to the demands of English style, which does not typically allow for understood or implied direct objects as Greek does.

⁴tn Grk “Pick up and walk”; the object (the mat) is implied but not repeated.

⁵tn Grk “and they asked them, saying”; the referent (the parents) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn The Greek pronoun and verb are both plural (both parents are addressed).

⁷sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.

⁸tn Grk “heard these things.”

⁹tn Grk “and said to him.”

¹⁰tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are we?”).

¹¹tn Grk “he”; the referent (the disciple Jesus loved) has been specified in the translation for clarity.