1 tn Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”
3 sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.
4 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
5 sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.