Luke 22:5-6

Context
22:5 They¹ were delighted² and arranged to give him money.³ 22:6 So⁴ Judas⁵ agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus⁶ when no crowd was present.⁷

[22:5] ¹tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[22:5] ²sn The leaders were delighted when Judas contacted them about betraying Jesus, because it gave them the opportunity they had been looking for, and they could later claim that Jesus had been betrayed by one of his own disciples.

[22:5] ³sn Matt 26:15 states the amount of money they gave Judas was thirty pieces of silver (see also Matt 27:3-4; Zech 11:12-13).

[22:6] ⁴tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the arrangement worked out in the preceding verse.

[22:6] ⁵tn Grk “he”; the referent (Judas) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6] ⁶tn Grk “betray him to them”; the referent of the first pronoun (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6] ⁷tn Grk “apart from the crowd.”