John 18:6

When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

In Context

5They answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them: I am he. And Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them.

7Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek? And they said: Jesus the Nazarene.

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Cross References

Luke 9:54And his disciples, James and John, seeing it, said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, as also Elijah did?

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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