John 15:15

15:15 I no longer call you slaves,¹ because the slave does not understand² what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything³ I heard⁴ from my Father.

John 18:10

18:10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave,⁵ cutting off his right ear.⁶ (Now the slave’s name was Malchus.)⁷

John 18:18

18:18 (Now the slaves⁸ and the guards⁹ were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold.¹⁰ Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.)¹¹

John 18:26

18:26 One of the high priest’s slaves,¹² a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,¹³ said, “Did I not see you in the orchard¹⁴ with him?”¹⁵

¹tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

²tn Or “does not know.”

³tn Grk “all things.”

⁴tn Or “learned.”

⁵tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

⁶sn The account of the attack on the high priest’s slave contains details which suggest eyewitness testimony. It is also mentioned in all three synoptic gospels, but only John records that the disciple involved was Peter, whose impulsive behavior has already been alluded to (John 13:37). Likewise only John gives the name of the victim, Malchus, who is described as the high priest’s slave. John and Mark (14:47) both use the word ὠτάριον (wtarion, a double diminutive) to describe what was cut off, and this may indicate only part of the right ear (for example, the earlobe).

⁷sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

⁸tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

⁹tn That is, the “guards of the chief priests” as distinguished from the household slaves of Annas.

¹⁰tn Grk “because it was cold, and they were warming themselves.”

¹¹sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

¹²tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

¹³sn This incident is recounted in v. 10.

¹⁴tn Or “garden.”

¹⁵tn This question, prefaced with οὐκ (ouk) in Greek, anticipates a positive answer.