John 18:8
Jesus answered: I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way;
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
In Context
7Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek? And they said: Jesus the Nazarene.
9that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Of those whom thou hast given me, I lost none.
Cross References
Matthew 26:56But all this has been done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all forsook him, and fled.
John 10:28and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.
John 13:36Simon Peter says to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterward.
1 Corinthians 10:13There has no temptation taken you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
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 →