John 18:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them,Whom seek ye? ”

• John 18:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (3) Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? (3) Christ's person (but not his power) was bound by his adversaries, but only when a...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  upon . Greek. epi. App-101. unto . to.

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• John 18:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Jesus therefore, hnowing. The Evangelist states more clearly with what readiness Christ went forward to death, but, at the same time, describes the great power which he exercised by a sin...

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• John 18:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1717 CHRIST’S ENEMIES SMITTEN DOWN BY A WORD John 18:4-9 . Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? They answered h...

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• John 18:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? Jesus knowing all things, etc. - He had gone through all his preaching, working of miracle...

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• John 18:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Jesus knowing all things that should come, &c.— That were coming. Our Lord not only knew in general, that he should suffer death, but of course, as the God-man, was acquainted with all the pa...

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• John 18:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? Jesus therefore knowing all things that should come (or 'were coming') upon him we...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come (better, were coming ) upon him. — Comp. Matthew 26:45 . Went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? — i.e., probably, went forth fro...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? (5) They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also,...

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• John 18:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus therefore knowing all things ,.... As being the omniscient God, so his knowledge reaches to all persons and things, without any limitation, and restriction; though here it has a regard to all...

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• John 18:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? Ver. 4. Went forth and said unto them ] Met his enemy in the face, after he had prayed...

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• John 18:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jesus, knowing all things that should come upon him That is, knowing, not only in general, that he must suffer a variety of insults, tortures, and even death itself, but also all the particular cir...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This evangelist saith nothing of what the other evangelists mention, of the sign that Judas had given them, by which they should know him; nor of Judas's kissing of him, or our Saviour's reply to him...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 18:4-9 Consider this incident: I. As a remarkable momentary manifestation of our Lord's glory. II. As a manifestation of the voluntariness of our Lord's suffering. III. An instance, on a s...

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• John 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - 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 18:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should come upon Him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?

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• John 18:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 18:10 ; 1 Kings 18:14-18 ; 1 Peter 4:1 ; Acts 2:28 ; Acts 20:22-23 ; Acts 4:24-28 ; John 10:17 ; John 10:18 ; John 13:1 ; John 19:28 ; Luke 18:31-33 ; Luke 24:44 ; Luke 24:6 ; L...

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