13:3 So 3 while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, 4 and Andrew asked him privately,
1 tn Grk “Answering, Peter said to him.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “Peter answered him.”
2 tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.
4 tn Grk “and James and John,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.