John 18:8

He answered to them, I said to you, that I am (he); therefore if ye seek me, suffer ye these to go away, (or and so if ye came for me, allow these men to go away).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

7And again he asked them, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.

9(So) That the word which he said should be fulfilled, For I lost not any of them, which thou hast given to me.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:56But all this thing was done, (so) that the scriptures of (the) prophets should be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, and left him.

John 10:28And I give to them everlasting life, and they shall not perish [into] without end, and none shall ravish them out of mine hand. (And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.)

John 13:36Simon Peter saith to him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered, Whither I go, thou mayest not (pur)sue me now, but thou shalt (pur)sue me afterward. (Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered, Where I go, thou cannot follow me now, but thou shalt follow me later.)

1 Corinthians 10:13Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain] (it). (Do not let yourselves be overtaken or defeated by any test, for it is but each man’s testing; and God is true, and he shall not allow you to be tested beyond what ye can endure; and he shall also make provision with any test, so that ye can endure it, or so that ye can sustain it.)

Ephesians 5:25Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church (or as the Messiah loved the church), and gave himself 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 →

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