Discovery BoxJohn 8:42 
Context8:42 Jesus replied, 1 “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. 2 I 3 have not come on my own initiative, 4 but he 5 sent me.
John 8:47
Context8:47 The one who belongs to 6 God listens and responds 7 to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, 8 because you don’t belong to God.” 9
John 8:55
Context8:55 Yet 10 you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, 11 I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey 12 his teaching. 13
1 tn Grk “Jesus said to them.”
2 tn Or “I came from God and have arrived.”
3 tn Grk “For I.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.
4 tn Grk “from myself.”
5 tn Grk “that one” (referring to God).
6 tn Grk “who is of.”
7 tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).
8 tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).
9 tn Grk “you are not of God.”
10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.
11 tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”
12 tn Grk “I keep.”
13 tn Grk “his word.”
