Refer to my 9/25/18 post about the margin notes in my Bible, and why I decided to share them on this blog.
1:18: “revealed”, i.e., “exegeted.”
1:51: “you” is plural, not spoken just to Nathanael.
2: Wedding In Cana. Bride or groom most likely related to Mary, else why her concern? Maybe a child.
2:12: “brothers”. These are literal half-brothers, sons of Mary.
3:3: “born again”. Born from above.
3:5: "of water and the spirit” is parallel with 3:3, i.e., born again means born of water and the spirit. See Isa.44:3. The Holy Spirt in the O.T. is often depicted as water: Prov.1:23; Joel 2:28-29; Zech.12:10. Jesus was saying “an outpouring of God’s Spirit.”
6: One year before crucifixion.
6:14: see Deut. 18:15-19.
6:35 is NOT literal.
6:37-40: Those who put their faith in Christ are given to him by God.
6:40 and 6:54 are parallels, so they mean the same, proving the eating and drinking is not literal.
6:44 is contingent on 12:32.
6:59: His audience was Jewish.
7:3, 5, 10 all refer to brothers as literal brothers, i.e. sons of Joseph and Mary.
7:16-17: Jesus’ doctrine vs man’s
7:37: this is about 6 months before the crucifixion.
7:38: Jesus is the water. Isa.55:1; Zech 13:1; Ezek.47.
7:39: Believers have the Spirit.
8:4: “caught in the act”. Then where is the man because he is also guilty!
8:6b-8: What was he writing? Could it have been the law that both needed to be charged?
8:12: This is actually picking up from 7:39. During this festival lights were important. Lighting ceremony at the festival of the booths is at Zech 14:5b-9, Isa. 49:6 which is read at the festival.
8:41: They knew that Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father.
8:44: Satan “killed’ Adam and Eve when he seduced them into losing life.
8:58-59: Jesus claimed to be God, proven by their desire to stone him IAW Lev.24:15.
10: 3 months prior to crucifixion.
10:10: “life”, i.e. union with God vs “death” as separation.
10:30: “The Father and I are one” is literally “I and the Father we are one.”
11:35: “Jesus wept.” Over the results of sin in addition to friendship.
11:38: Angry at sin, death, unbelief.
11:44: He was restored to life, not resurrected.
12:3: Nard is from India.
12:23: Probably time wise right after Mark 11:15-17.
12:40: They hardened their own hearts by rejecting God—because of God their hearts were hardened.
13:2: Better rendering: “his heart (the devil’s) to use Judas”
13:10: “You are clean” is plural.
13:18: Refer to vs.10
14:6: Only one way of salvation.
14:26: The Holy Spirit to teach the apostles.
14:30: This refutes the Word of Faith heresy.
15:16: He chose them as disciples/apostles, not for salvation.
17: 3: Defines eternal life.
17:7-8, 14, 26: Jesus personally taught them.
18:12-13, 19: Annas was deposed by Romans in 15 AD; Jews were upset and considered him still the authority.
18:31b-32: John 12:32-33. Crucify vs stoning was Roman execution.
19: The crucifixion seems to be dated at April 3, 33 AD.
20:11-17: Why didn’t she recognize Him? Distance? Turned away and saw in peripheral, and that’s why when she turned around she recognized Him?
20:25: “nails in his hands” - “nails” plural rather than nail singular, meaning both were separately nailed, destroying JW “torture stake” claim.
20:28: Literally “The Lord of me and the God of me”
21:4: Due to distance?
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