15:23 All the land was weeping loudly 1 as all these people were leaving. 2 As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving 3 on the road that leads to the desert.
23:6 But evil people are like thorns –
all of them are tossed away,
for they cannot be held in the hand.
18:1 When he had said these things, 6 Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. 7 There was an orchard 8 there, and he and his disciples went into it.
1 tn Heb “with a great voice.”
2 tn Heb “crossing over.”
3 tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”
4 tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.
5 tn Heb “delivered.”
6 sn When he had said these things appears to be a natural transition at the end of the Farewell Discourse (the farewell speech of Jesus to his disciples in John 13:31-17:26, including the final prayer in 17:1-26). The author states that Jesus went out with his disciples, a probable reference to their leaving the upper room where the meal and discourse described in chaps. 13-17 took place (although some have seen this only as a reference to their leaving the city, with the understanding that some of the Farewell Discourse, including the concluding prayer, was given en route, cf. 14:31). They crossed the Kidron Valley and came to a garden, or olive orchard, identified in Matt 26:36 and Mark 14:32 as Gethsemane. The name is not given in Luke’s or John’s Gospel, but the garden must have been located somewhere on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives.
7 tn Grk “the wadi of the Kidron,” or “the ravine of the Kidron” (a wadi is a stream that flows only during the rainy season and is dry during the dry season).
8 tn Or “a garden.”