John 19:41

19:41 Now at the place where Jesus ¹  was crucified ²  there was a garden, ³  and in the garden ⁴  was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried. ⁵ 

John 18:1

Betrayal and Arrest

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.

[19:41]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:41]  ² sn See the note on Crucify in 19:6.

[19:41]  ³ tn Or “an orchard.”

[19:41]  ⁴ tn Or “orchard.”

[19:41]  ⁵ tn Grk “been placed.”

[18:1]  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.

[18:1]  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).

[18:1]  ⁸ tn Or “a garden.”