John 2:10
Context2:10 and said to him, “Everyone 1 serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper 2 wine when the guests 3 are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”
John 9:9
Context9:9 Some people said, 4 “This is the man!” 5 while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” 6 The man himself 7 kept insisting, “I am the one!” 8
John 16:18
Context16:18 So they kept on repeating, 9 “What is the meaning of what he says, 10 ‘In a little while’? 11 We do not understand 12 what he is talking about.” 13
1 tn Grk “every man” (in a generic sense).
2 tn Or “poorer.”
3 tn Grk “when they”; the referent (the guests) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “Others were saying.”
5 tn Grk “This is the one.”
6 tn Grk “No, but he is like him.”
7 tn Grk “That one”; the referent (the man himself) is specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Grk “I am he.”
9 tn Grk “they kept on saying.”
10 tn Grk “What is this that he says.”
11 tn Grk “A little while.” Although the phrase τὸ μικρόν (to mikron) in John 16:18 could be translated simply “a little while,” it was translated “in a little while” to maintain the connection to John 16:16, where it has the latter meaning in context.
12 tn Or “we do not know.”
13 tn Grk “what he is speaking.”