Text -- Luke 22:5 (NET)

22:5 They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 22:5

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

² sn The leaders were delighted when Judas contacted them about betraying Jesus, because it gave them the opportunity they had been looking for, and they could later claim that Jesus had been betrayed by one of his own disciples.

³ sn Matt 26:15 states the amount of money they gave Judas was thirty pieces of silver (see also Matt 27:3-4; Zech 11:12-13).