Matthew 11:8

11:8 What ¹  did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? ²  Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings! ³ 

Matthew 26:58

26:58 But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After ⁴  going in, he sat with the guards ⁵  to see the outcome.

¹ tn Grk “But what.” Here ἀλλά (alla, a strong contrastive in Greek) produces a somewhat awkward sense in English, and has not been translated. The same situation occurs at the beginning of v. 9.

² sn The reference to fancy clothes makes the point that John was not rich or powerful, in that he did not come from the wealthy classes.

³ tn Or “palaces.”

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁵ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.