1 tn The perfect tenses in both this verse and the next do more than mere aorists would. They not only summarize, but suggest the characteristics of each ministry were still in existence at the time of speaking.
2 tn Grk “neither eating bread nor drinking wine,” but this is somewhat awkward in contemporary English.
3 sn John the Baptist was too separatist and ascetic for some, and so he was accused of not being directed by God, but by a demon.
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
5 tn Or “had been delivered”; Grk “had been saved.” This should not be understood as an expression for full salvation. They were only discussing the healing.
