Matthew 21:17

21:17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Luke 21:37-38

21:37 So ¹  every day Jesus ²  was teaching in the temple courts, ³  but at night he went and stayed ⁴  on the Mount of Olives. ⁵  21:38 And all the people ⁶  came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts. ⁷ 

John 8:1-2

8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ⁸  8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach ⁹  them.

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” since vv. 37-38 serve as something of a summary or transition from the discourse preceding to the passion narrative that follows.

² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Grk “in the temple.”

⁴ tn Grk “and spent the night,” but this is redundant because of the previous use of the word “night.”

⁵ tn Grk “at the mountain called ‘of Olives.’”

⁶ sn Jesus’ teaching was still quite popular with all the people at this point despite the leaders’ opposition.

⁷ tc Some mss (those of ˹³) place John 7:53-8:11 here after v. 38, no doubt because it was felt that this was a better setting for the pericope.

⁸ sn The Mount of Olives is a hill running north to south about 1.8 mi (3 km) long, lying east of Jerusalem across the Kidron Valley. It was named for the large number of olive trees that grew on it.

⁹ tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle.