John 18:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus answered,I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: ”

John 18:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let these go their way - These apostles. This shows his care and love even in the hour of danger. He expected to die. They were to carry the news of his death to the ends of the earth. Hence he,...
John 18:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(4) Jesus answered, I have told you that I am [he]: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: (4) Christ does not neglect the office of a good pastor, not even in his greatest danger.
John 18:8 - 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,...
John 18:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if. App-118.
John 18:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may blot out our transgressions, but also how he dischar...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he : if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: Let these go their way - These words are rather words of authority, than words of entreaty. I voluntar...
John 18:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If therefore ye seek me,— This was not a request, which would have been but little attended to by an inveterate multitude, but a command; for the same divine power which struck them to the grou...
John 18:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: Jesus answered, I have told you that I am [he]. If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way...
John 18:8 - 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,...
John 18:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way. — It may be that some of the Roman cohort, not knowing Jesus, were already laying hands on the disciples. In any case, they are exposed to this dang...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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,...
John 18:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he ,.... This he said, upbraiding them with their stupidity; signifying he was ready to deliver himself up into their hands; and which he did with intrepidi...
John 18:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he : if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: Ver. 8. Let these go their way ] This seems to indent with the Jews ere he yielded himself their...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " 1 Thessalonians 18:7 "
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - 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....
John 18:8 - 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...
John 18:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An exhibition of divine majesty:
John 18:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:13 ; 1 Peter 5:7 ; 2 Corinthians 12:9 ; Ephesians 5:25 ; Isaiah 53:6 ; John 10:28 ; John 13:1 ; John 13:36 ; John 16:32 ; Mark 14:50-52 ; Matthew 26:56
John 18:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If ye seek me, let these (my disciples) go — It was an eminent instance of his power over the spirits of men, that they so far obeyed this word, as not to seize even Peter, when he had cut off the...

John 18:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

John 18:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

John 18:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

John 18:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

John 18:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

John 18:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

John 18:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

John 18:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

John 18:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

John 18:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

John 18:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John 18:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John 18:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John 18:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

John 18:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 18:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

John 18:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

John 18:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

John 18:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

John 18:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 18:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 18:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

John 18:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

John 18:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 18:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes