16:21 From that time on 2 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem 3 and suffer 4 many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, 5 and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.
2 tn Grk “From then.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.
5 tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
6 sn The four drachma coin was a stater (στατήρ, stathr), a silver coin worth four drachmas. One drachma was equivalent to one denarius, the standard pay for a day’s labor (L&N 6.80).