¹ tn Grk “And they asked him, and said to him”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity, and the phrase has been simplified in the translation to “So they asked John.”

² tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.

³ tn Grk “you cannot hear,” but this is not a reference to deafness, but rather hearing in the sense of listening to something and responding to it.

⁴ tn Grk “my word.”

⁵ tn Grk “three hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth a standard day’s wage, so the value exceeded what a laborer could earn in a year (taking into account Sabbaths and feast days when no work was done).

⁶ tn The words “the money” are not in the Greek text, but are implied (as the proceeds from the sale of the perfumed oil).

⁷ tn Grk “Ask those who heard what I said to them.” The words “to them” are not translated since they are redundant in English.

⁸ tn Grk “Look, these know what I said.”

⁹ tn Grk “Jesus answered him.”

¹⁰ tn Or “something incorrect.”

¹¹ tn Grk “testify.”

¹² tn Or “incorrect.”