John 18:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. ”

• John 18:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A band - See the notes at Matthew 26:47 ; Matthew 27:27 . John passes over the agony of Jesus in the garden, probably because it was so fully described by the other evangelists. Lanterns ......

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• John 18:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (2) Judas then, having received a band [of men] and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. (2) Christ who was innocent was taken as a wi...

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• John 18:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 18 f. The Arrest, the Trial, and the Passion. John 18:1-11 . The Arrest. Jesus leaves the room, or the city, and crosses the Kedron ( cf. 2 Samuel 15:23 ) to a garden where He often went,...

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• John 18:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  a band . the cohort; the word means the tenth part of. legion, therefore 600 men; but the term was probably used with some latitude. officers. The Temple guard. Compare John 7:32 ; John 7:45 ;...

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• John 18:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3. Judas, therefore, having received a band of soldiers. That Judas came accompanied by soldiers and by so large a retinue, is a sign of a bad conscience, which always trembles without an...

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• John 18:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. A band - Την σπειραν, The band or troop. Some thin...

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• John 18:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  A band of men— This band consisted of Roman soldiers; for both its name, σπειρα, a cohort, and the title of its commander, χιλιαρχος, ( John 18:12 .) Chiliarch, answering to our colonel, ar...

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• John 18:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. Judas then - "He that was called Judas, one...

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• John 18:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Christ Before Annas, Caiaphas, and Pilate 1-14. Christ's arrest and trial before Annas (cp. Matthew 26:30 = Mark 14:26 = Luke 22:39 ). The narrative is now parallel with the synoptic account,...

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• John 18:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. — Better, the band, and officers from the chief priests and Pharieess. The other Gospels tell us of a “great multitude” (Matt.), o...

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• John 18:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVII. THE ARREST. "When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into the which He entered, Himself and His disciples. Now Judas...

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• John 18:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus Accepts His Suffering John 18:1-11 Our Lord went forth from the city and across the brook Cedron to Gethsemane, but not for the purpose of concealment, as John 18:2 clearly shows. How c...

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• John 18:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  From the sacred hours of teaching and prayer our Lord passed to the final acts in His mighty work. This brought Him to Gethsemane, where we have a revelation of His majesty and His meekness. He suffe...

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• John 18:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples. (3) Judas then, having received a hand of men and officers from the chief priests and Phar...

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• John 18:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Judas then having received a band of men ,.... From the captain of this band, who in John 18:12 ; is called a "Chiliarch", that is, a commander of a thousand men, one might conclude there were so m...

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• John 18:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. Ver. 3. Judas having then received a band ] Th...

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• John 18:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When Jesus had spoken these words Had delivered the discourse recorded above, and concluded his intercessory prayer; he went with his disciples over the brook Cedron On the other side of which w...

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• John 18:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BETRAYED AND ARRESTED (vs.1-12) The Son of God goes calmly, steadily on to the great conquest of Calvary, each step of the way perfectly measured by divine wisdom. The fact of His going into the...

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• John 18:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ in the Garden; The Treachery of Judas; The Ear of Malachus Cut Off; Christ Yields Himself a Prisoner.       1 When Jesus had sp...

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• John 18:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The evangelist here passeth over all mentioned by the other evangelists about Judas's going to the high priests, and contracting with them, and cometh to relate his coming to apprehend him with a ban...

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• John 18:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Arrest ( John 18:1-12 ). Leaving the Upper Room Jesus led His disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives. The fact that Judas knew where to find Him suggests either that this...

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• John 18:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 18:1 . Went forth. —From the part of the suburbs where the discourse from John 14:31 had been spoken, and the intercessory prayer offered. The brook Cedron...

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• John 18:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 18:1-2 . 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. And Judas also, which betr...

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• John 18:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 18:1 . He went over the brook Cedron. Cedron, or Kidron, was the name of the deep valley, as well as of the brook which ran through it, on the east between Jerusalem and the mount of Olives....

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• John 18:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION B. THE HOUR HAS COME . John 18:1 John 19:42 .— 1. The outer glorification of Christ in his Passion . John 18:1-43 (1) The betrayal , the majesty of his be...

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• John 18:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Arrest of Jesus. Across the Kidron to Gethsemane:

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• John 18:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 1:16 ; John 13:2 ; John 13:27-30 ; John 18:12 ; Luke 22:47 ; Mark 14:43 ; Mark 14:44 ; Mark 14:48 ; Matthew 26:47 ; Matthew 26:55 ; Psalms 22:12 ; Psalms 3:1 ; Psalms 3:2

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• John 18:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A troop of soldiers — A cohort of Roman foot.

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