Discovery BoxJohn 1:38 
Context1:38 Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” 1 So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), 2 “where are you staying?”
John 18:22
Context18:22 When Jesus 3 had said this, one of the high priest’s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, 4 “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”
John 19:21
Context19:21 Then the chief priests of the Jews 5 said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’”
1 tn Grk “What are you seeking?”
2 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “one of the high priest’s servants standing by gave Jesus a strike, saying.” For the translation of ῥάπισμα (rJapisma), see L&N 19.4.
5 tn Or “the Jewish chief priests.” Nowhere else in the Fourth Gospel are the two expressions οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων (Joi arcierei" twn Ioudaiwn) combined. Earlier in 19:15 the chief priests were simply referred to as οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς. It seems likely that this is another example of Johannine irony, to be seen in contrast to the inscription on the cross which read ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων (Jo basileu" twn Ioudaiwn). For this reason the phrase has been translated “the chief priests of the Jews” (which preserves in the translation the connection with “King of the Jews”) rather than “the Jewish chief priests.”
