John 18:21

Why are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to them: they have knowledge of what I said.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.

In Context

20Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.

22When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?

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Cross References

Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;

Luke 22:67If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;

Acts 24:18And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia,

Matthew Henry on John 18:14-28

Christ before Annas and Caiaphas; The Fall of Peter; Christ Arraigned; Peter Again Denies Christ. 13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year. 14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 16 But Peter stood… Read the whole commentary →

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