Discovery BoxJohn 8:28 
Context8:28 Then Jesus said, 1 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, 2 and I do nothing on my own initiative, 3 but I speak just what the Father taught me. 4
John 8:42
Context8:42 Jesus replied, 5 “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. 6 I 7 have not come on my own initiative, 8 but he 9 sent me.
1 tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all
2 tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.
3 tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”
4 tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”
5 tn Grk “Jesus said to them.”
6 tn Or “I came from God and have arrived.”
7 tn Grk “For I.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.
8 tn Grk “from myself.”
9 tn Grk “that one” (referring to God).
