John 18:13

They took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year.

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In The King James Version

And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.

In Context

12Then the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round him.

14It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:57And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.

John 11:51He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

Acts 4:6And Annas, the high priest, was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all the relations of the high priest.

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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