John 18:8
Jesus replied, “I told you that I am Jesus. So since I am the one you are looking for, allow these disciples of mine to go.”
Translation for Translators
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
7He asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”
Cross References
Matthew 26:56But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me.” Then all of us disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.
John 10:28I will give them eternal life. No one will separate them from me, not ever. No one shall ever pull them away from belonging to me.
John 13:36Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “The place where I am going, you cannot come with me now, but you will come there later.”
1 Corinthians 10:13Remember that your desires to sin are the same desires that other people have. But when you are tempted to sin, you can trust God to help you. He will not permit you to be tempted {anything to tempt you} more than you are able to resist. Instead, when you are tempted {things tempt you}, he will also provide a way for you to endure it without sinning.
Ephesians 5:25Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake,
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 →