John 18:24-26

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. John 18:24 tn Or “still bound.”
2. John 18:24 sn Where was Caiaphas the high priest located? Did he have a separate palace, or was he somewhere else with the Sanhedrin? Since Augustine (4th century) a number of scholars have proposed that Annas and Caiaphas resided in different wings of the same palace, which were bound together by a common courtyard through which Jesus would have been led as he was taken from Annas to Caiaphas. This seems a reasonable explanation, although there is no conclusive evidence.
3. John 18:25 tn The words “in the courtyard” are not in the Greek text. They are supplied for the benefit of the modern reader, to link this scene to the preceding one in John 18:15-18.
4. John 18:25 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mē) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).
5. John 18:25 tn Grk “That one denied it and said”; the referent of the pronoun (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6. John 18:26 tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.
7. John 18:26 sn This incident is recounted in v. 10.
8. John 18:26 tn Or “garden.”
9. John 18:26 tn This question, prefaced with οὐκ (ouk) in Greek, anticipates a positive answer.