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John 8:20-22
Lexham English Bible
John 8:20-22
Lexham English Bible
20 He spoke these words by the treasury while[a] teaching in the temple courts,[b] and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus Predicts His Death
21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!” 22 Then the Jews began to say,[c] “Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”
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- John 8:20 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal
- John 8:20 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
- John 8:22 *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
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