Matthew 26:46

26:46 Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer ¹  is approaching!”

John 18:1-2

Betrayal and Arrest

18:1 When he had said these things, ²  Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. ³  There was an orchard ⁴  there, and he and his disciples went into it. 18:2 (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times ⁵  with his disciples.) ⁶ 

[26:46]  ¹ tn Grk “the one who betrays me.”

[18:1]  ² 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]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Or “a garden.”

[18:2]  ⁵ tn Or “often.”

[18:2]  ⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.