John 18:10

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the chief priest, and cut off his right ear. The name of the servant was Malchus.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

In Context

9This he said, that the word might be fulfilled which he had spoken: Of those whom thou hast given me; I have lost none.

11Then Jesus said to Peter: Put up your sword into its scabbard. Shall I not drink the cup that my Father has given me?

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Cross References

Mark 14:30And Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, this day, during this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.

Luke 22:33And he said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both to prison and to death.

John 18:26One of the servants of the chief priest, who was a kinsman of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said: Did I not see you in the garden with him?

Matthew Henry on John 18:2-13

Christ in the Garden; The Treachery of Judas; The Ear of Malachus Cut Off; Christ Yields Himself a Prisoner. 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. 2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. 3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and… Read the whole commentary →

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