Discovery BoxJohn 6:30 
Context6:30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
John 7:31
Context7:31 Yet many of the crowd 1 believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ 2 comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” 3
John 9:4
Context9:4 We must perform the deeds 4 of the one who sent me 5 as long as 6 it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
1 tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities).
2 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.
3 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?”).
4 tn Grk “We must work the works.”
5 tn Or “of him who sent me” (God).
6 tn Or “while.”
