Charles Ellicott Commentary John 8:1

"but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives." — John 8:1 (ASV)

It is an instructive example of how the artificial division into chapters often disrupts the sense: one verse of this section is found at the end of the previous chapter, and the rest in this one.

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.)