VIII.
(1) It is an instructive example of the way in which the artificial division into Chapter s often mars the sense. that one verse of this section is found at the close of the last chapter, and the remainder in this.
Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. — The Mount of Olives is nowhere mentioned by St. John. In John 18:1 he describes the locality, but without this name (see Note there). His habit, moreover, in giving topographical details of Palestine is to explain them for his Greek readers. (See Note on John 4:5.)