8:9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, 1 until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
18:25 Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard 5 warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” 6 Peter 7 denied it: “I am not!”
1 tn Or “beginning from the eldest.”
2 tn Grk “that you always hear me.”
3 tn The word “this” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context.
4 tn Grk “spoke to the doorkeeper”; her description as a slave girl is taken from the following verse. The noun θυρωρός (qurwro") may be either masculine or feminine, but the article here indicates that it is feminine.
5 tn The words “in the courtyard” are not in the Greek text. They are supplied for the benefit of the modern reader, to link this scene to the preceding one in John 18:15-18.
6 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).
7 tn Grk “That one denied it and said”; the referent of the pronoun (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.