John 18:8
Jesus answered, “I have told you that I AM! Therefore if you seek Me, allow these men to go,”
English Majority Text (NT)
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
7Then He asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
9so that the word might be fulfilled which He said, “ Those whom You have given Me I have lost none.”
Cross References
Matthew 26:56But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled. 1 Jesus Before the High Priest
John 10:28And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
John 13:36Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but later you will follow Me.”
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also provide the way out, so as for you to be able to bear it.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
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 →