John 10:18

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down ¹  of my own free will. ²  I have the authority ³  to lay it down, and I have the authority ⁴  to take it back again. This commandment ⁵  I received from my Father.”

John 16:17

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ⁶  ‘In a little while you ⁷  will not see me; again after a little while, you ⁸  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ⁹ 

John 17:11

17:11 I ¹⁰  am no longer in the world, but ¹¹  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ¹²  in your name ¹³  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ¹⁴ 

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¹ tn Or “give it up.”

² tn Or “of my own accord.” “Of my own free will” is given by BDAG 321 s.v. ἐμαυτοῦ c.

³ tn Or “I have the right.”

⁴ tn Or “I have the right.”

⁵ tn Or “order.”

⁶ tn Grk “What is this that he is saying to us.”

⁷ tn Grk “A little while, and you.”

⁸ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”

⁹ sn These fragmentary quotations of Jesus’ statements are from 16:16 and 16:10, and indicate that the disciples heard only part of what Jesus had to say to them on this occasion.

¹⁰ tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

¹¹ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

¹² tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

¹³ tn Or “by your name.”

¹⁴ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.