The Pulpit Commentary on John 8:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. This resort of our Lord is not elsewhere referred to in John's Gospel, although it was mentioned by St. Luke (Luke 21:37; Luke 22:39) as the scene of the Lord's retirement during the nights of the last week of his life.

John's mention of such a habit as this at an earlier period would in almost any other literature be regarded as mutual confirmation of the two documents, while the fact that "Bethany" lay on the opposite side of the hill, and the "garden" was, as a matter of fact, hidden on its slopes, and that both of these facts are known to the writer (John 11:1-57.

and 19.) deprive the bare mention of the name of any inauthentic character.

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