John 18:6

And when Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell upon the ground.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 say to him: Jesus the Nazarean. Jesus said to them: I am he. And Judas the betrayer was also standing with them.

7And again Jesus asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus the Nazarean.

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Cross References

Luke 9:54And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said to him: Our Lord, wilt thou that we speak, and fire come down from heaven, and consume them, as also did Elijah?

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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