John 8:2

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 ¹  them.

John 8:20

8:20 (Jesus ²  spoke these words near the offering box ³  while he was teaching in the temple courts. ⁴  No one seized him because his time ⁵  had not yet come.) ⁶ 

John 11:56

11:56 Thus they were looking for Jesus, ⁷  and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, ⁸  “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

[8:2]  ¹ tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle.

[8:20]  ² tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:20]  ³ tn The term γαζοφυλάκιον (gazofulakion) can be translated “treasury” or “treasure room” in this context. BDAG 186 s.v. 1 notes, “It can be taken in this sense J 8:20 (sing.) in (or at) the treasury.” BDAG 186 s.v. 2 argues that the occurrences of this word in the synoptic gospels also refer to the treasury: “For Mk 12:41, 43; Lk 21:1 the mng. contribution box or receptacle is attractive. Acc. to Mishnah, Shekalim 6, 5 there were in the temple 13 such receptacles in the form of trumpets. But even in these passages the general sense of ‘treasury’ is prob., for the contributions would go [into] the treasury via the receptacles.” Based upon the extra-biblical evidence (see sn following), however, the translation opts to refer to the actual receptacles and not the treasury itself.

[8:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “the temple.”

[8:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “his hour.”

[8:20]  ⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[11:56]  ³ tn Grk “they were seeking Jesus.”

[11:56]  ⁴ tn Grk “in the temple.”