Editorial Comments in the Gospel of John
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Editorial Comments in the Gospel of John, also called "Asides", consist of explanatory commentary interspersed throughout the elegantly written book. Sometimes modern translations place them inside parentheses if they are merely a sentence long.
It is known that late manuscripts of the Gospel of John contain non-authentic material inserted subsequent to the earliest manuscripts from the A.D. 300s, such as the Codex Vaticanus. But these editorial comments are in the earliest discovered manuscripts also.
Consider, for example, the following parenthetical in the ESV translation, from John Chapter 4:
| â | 43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. | â |