Discovery BoxJohn 1:30 
Context1:30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, 1 because he existed before me.’
John 5:37
Context5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people 2 have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, 3
John 6:44
Context6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, 4 and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 7:36
Context7:36 What did he mean by saying, 5 ‘You will look for me 6 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
John 8:46
Context8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty 7 of any sin? 8 If I am telling you 9 the truth, why don’t you believe me?
John 12:49
Context12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, 10 but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me 11 what I should say and what I should speak.
John 13:38
Context13:38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? 12 I tell you the solemn truth, 13 the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!
John 14:19
Context14:19 In a little while 14 the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
John 14:24
Context14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey 15 my words. And the word 16 you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
John 16:5
Context16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, 17 and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ 18
1 tn Or “has a higher rank than I.”
2 tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied to clarify that the following verbs (“heard,” “seen,” “have residing,” “do not believe”) are second person plural.
3 sn You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time. Compare Deut 4:12. Also see Deut 5:24 ff., where the Israelites begged to hear the voice no longer – their request (ironically) has by this time been granted. How ironic this would be if the feast is Pentecost, where by the 1st century
4 tn Or “attracts him,” or “pulls him.” The word is used of pulling or dragging, often by force. It is even used once of magnetic attraction (A. Oepke, TDNT 2:503).
sn The Father who sent me draws him. The author never specifically explains what this “drawing” consists of. It is evidently some kind of attraction; whether it is binding and irresistible or not is not mentioned. But there does seem to be a parallel with 6:65, where Jesus says that no one is able to come to him unless the Father has allowed it. This apparently parallels the use of Isaiah by John to reflect the spiritual blindness of the Jewish leaders (see the quotations from Isaiah in John 9:41 and 12:39-40).
5 tn Grk “What is this word that he said.”
6 tn Grk “seek me.”
7 tn Or “can convict me.”
8 tn Or “of having sinned”; Grk “of sin.”
9 tn Or “if I tell you.”
10 tn Grk “I have not spoken from myself.”
11 tn Grk “has given me commandment.”
12 tn Or “Will you die willingly for me?”
13 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
14 tn Grk “Yet a little while, and.”
15 tn Or “does not keep.”
16 tn Or “the message.”
17 sn Now the theme of Jesus’ impending departure is resumed (I am going to the one who sent me). It will also be mentioned in 16:10, 17, and 28. Jesus had said to his opponents in 7:33 that he was going to the one who sent him; in 13:33 he had spoken of going where the disciples could not come. At that point Peter had inquired where he was going, but it appears that Peter did not understand Jesus’ reply at that time and did not persist in further questioning. In 14:5 Thomas had asked Jesus where he was going.
18 sn Now none of the disciples asks Jesus where he is going, and the reason is given in the following verse: They have been overcome with sadness as a result of the predictions of coming persecution that Jesus has just spoken to them in 15:18-25 and 16:1-4a. Their shock at Jesus’ revelation of coming persecution is so great that none of them thinks to ask him where it is that he is going.
