John 18:5
They say to him: Jesus the Nazarean. Jesus said to them: I am he. And Judas the betrayer was also standing with them.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
4And Jesus, as he knew every thing that was to befall him, went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye?
6And when Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell upon the ground.
Cross References
Matthew 21:11And the multitudes said, This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee.
John 19:19And Pilate also wrote a tablet, and affixed it to his cross. And thus it was written: THIS IS JESUS THE NAZAREAN, KING OF THE JEWS.
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 →