Discovery BoxJohn 8:52 
Context8:52 Then 1 the Judeans 2 responded, 3 “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! 4 Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet 5 you say, ‘If anyone obeys 6 my teaching, 7 he will never experience 8 death.’ 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
John 16:32
Context16:32 Look, a time 14 is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, 15 and I will be left alone. 16 Yet 17 I am not alone, because my Father 18 is with me.
John 20:17
Context20:17 Jesus replied, 19 “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
1 tc ‡ Important and early witnesses (Ì66 א B C W Θ 579 it) lack the conjunction here, while other witnesses read οὖν (oun, “therefore”; Ì75 D L Ψ 070 Ë1,13 33 Ï lat). This conjunction occurs in John some 200 times, far more than in any other NT book. Even though the most important Johannine papyrus (Ì75) has the conjunction, the combination of Ì66 א B for the omission is even stronger. Further, the reading seems to be a predictable scribal emendation. In particular, οὖν is frequently used with the plural of εἶπον (eipon, “they said”) in John (in this chapter alone, note vv. 13, 39, 48, 57, and possibly 41). On balance, it is probably best to consider the shorter reading as authentic, even though “Then” is virtually required in translation for English stylistic reasons. NA27 has the conjunction in brackets, indicating some doubt as to its authenticity.
2 tn Grk “the Jews.” See the note on this term in v. 31. Here, as in vv. 31 and 48, the phrase refers to the Jewish people in Jerusalem (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e) who had been listening to Jesus’ teaching in the temple courts (8:20) and had initially believed his claim to be the Messiah (cf. 8:31).
3 tn Grk “said to him.”
4 tn Grk “you have a demon.”
5 tn “Yet” has been supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.
6 tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”
7 tn Grk “my word.”
8 tn Grk “will never taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).
9 tn Grk “he will never taste of death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.
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.”
14 tn Grk “an hour.”
15 tn Grk “each one to his own”; the word “home” is not in the Greek text but is implied. The phrase “each one to his own” may be completed in a number of different ways: “each one to his own property”; “each one to his own family”; or “each one to his own home.” The last option seems to fit most easily into the context and so is used in the translation.
16 sn The proof of Jesus’ negative evaluation of the disciples’ faith is now given: Jesus foretells their abandonment of him at his arrest, trials, and crucifixion (I will be left alone). This parallels the synoptic accounts in Matt 26:31 and Mark 14:27 when Jesus, after the last supper and on the way to Gethsemane, foretold the desertion of the disciples as a fulfillment of Zech 13:7: “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.” Yet although the disciples would abandon Jesus, he reaffirmed that he was not alone, because the Father was still with him.
17 tn Grk “And” (but with some contrastive force).
18 tn Grk “the Father.”
19 tn Grk “Jesus said to her.”
