Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageSo the Jewish leaders said, "Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSo the Judeans said, "Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
KJV
King James VersionThen said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleSo the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
Footnotes
The Greek "οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι" (hoi Ioudaioi) is one of John's most contested terms. It can mean "the Jews" (ethnic-religious group broadly), "the Judeans" (a geographic designation distinguishing Judea from Galilee and Samaria), or—most contextually appropriate in passages of confrontation—"the Jewish religious authorities." A blanket rendering of "the Jews" has historically been weaponised to implicate all Jewish people in anti-Semitic readings of John's Gospel. FOG consistently uses "the Judeans" to honour the geographic-ethnic precision while avoiding ethnic generalisation; FOG Message uses "the Jewish leaders" where the context clearly points to the religious establishment, to make the scope of John's critique explicit.
