John 4:25

4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); ¹  “whenever he ²  comes, he will tell ³  us everything.” ⁴ 

John 7:31

7:31 Yet many of the crowd ⁵  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ⁶  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ⁷ 

---

¹ tn Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “the one who has been anointed.”

sn The one called Christ. This is a parenthetical statement by the author. See the note on Christ in 1:20.

² tn Grk “that one.”

³ tn Or “he will announce to us.”

⁴ tn Grk “all things.”

⁵ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities).

⁶ tn 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.

⁷ tn 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 it is “will he?”).