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约翰福音 18:5

他們回答:“拿撒勒人耶穌!”耶穌說:“我就是。”出賣耶穌的猶大和他們站在那裡。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Judas (Jude);   Prisoners;   Prophecy;   Traitor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jesus Christ;   Nazareth, Jesus of;   The Topic Concordance - Judas Iscariot;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gethsemane;   Jesus christ;   Judas;   Messiah;   Nazareth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gethsemane;   I Am;   John, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Arrest ;   First and Last ;   Gethsemane ;   Majesty (2);   Mount of Olives ;   Nazareth ;   Questions and Answers;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Judas Iscariot ;   Officer;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nazarene;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 回 答 说 : 找 拿 撒 勒 人 耶 稣 。 耶 稣 说 : 我 就 是 。 卖 他 的 犹 大 也 同 他 们 站 在 那 里 。

Contextual Overview

1 When Jesus finished praying, he went with his followers across the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and Jesus and his followers went into it. 2 Judas knew where this place was, because Jesus met there often with his followers. Judas was the one who turned against Jesus. 3 So Judas came there with a group of soldiers and some guards from the leading priests and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns, and weapons. 4 Knowing everything that would happen to him, Jesus went out and asked, "Who is it you are looking for?" 5 They answered, "Jesus from Nazareth." "I am he," Jesus said. (Judas, the one who turned against Jesus, was standing there with them.) 6 When Jesus said, "I am he," they moved back and fell to the ground. 7 Jesus asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 "I told you that I am he," Jesus said. "So if you are looking for me, let the others go." 9 This happened so that the words Jesus said before would come true: "I have not lost any of the ones you gave me." 10 Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jesus: John 1:46, John 19:19, Matthew 2:23, Matthew 21:11

stood: Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 8:12

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 1:11 - Again John 1:45 - Jesus John 6:24 - seeking John 7:44 - no man John 10:18 - man John 18:17 - I am not

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "No! Please! If I have pleased you, then accept the gift I give you. I am very happy to see your face again. It is like seeing the face of God, because you have accepted me.
Judges 6:18
Please wait here until I come back to you. Let me bring my offering and set it in front of you." And the Lord said, "I will wait until you return."
Judges 13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "We would like you to stay awhile so we can cook a young goat for you."
Judges 19:5
On the fourth day they got up early in the morning. The Levite was getting ready to leave, but the woman's father said to his son-in-law, "Refresh yourself by eating something. Then go."
Psalms 104:15
You give us wine that makes happy hearts and olive oil that makes our faces shine. You give us bread that gives us strength.
Isaiah 3:1
Understand this: The Lord God All-Powerful will take away everything Judah and Jerusalem need— all the food and water,
Matthew 6:11
Give us the food we need for each day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth,.... Their answer is not, "thee"; for they knew him not, their eyes were holden, or struck with dimness, or blindness, as the men of Sodom were; or they that answered might be such, who never personally knew him: nor do they say "Christ", for they rejected and denied him as the Messiah; nor do they call him that deceiver, or seditious person, as they sometimes did, being willing to cover their malicious views and intentions; but Jesus of Nazareth, a name by which he was commonly known, being taken from his education and conversation in that place; though this was sometimes given him in a contemptuous way:

Jesus saith unto them, I am [he]; or "I am", respecting his name Jehovah, averring himself to be the Christ, and owning himself under the name they were pleased to call him by; which shows how willing he was to be taken by them, and may teach us not to be ashamed of him, or of any nickname we may bear for his sake:

and Judas also which betrayed him stood with them; this circumstance is recorded to show, that Judas at first did not know him any more than the rest; so that he might easily have passed them if he had pleased; and that Judas did not stand with them as an idle spectator; he came with them to betray him, and was looking out for him; though when he spake he knew him not: it also expresses the different company Judas was in; a little while ago, he was at supper with Christ, and the other disciples, and now he is at the head of a band of soldiers, and others, to betray him; and also his continuance in his iniquity and wicked resolutions and agreement; as yet he had no remorse of conscience, or sense of his sin: and it seems to be mentioned also with this view, to inform us, that he fell to the ground with the rest; which is related in John 18:6. The Jew x asserts, that there is a disagreement between the Evangelist John and the rest of the evangelists in this account: he observes, that when Judas came with his armed men to take Jesus, Jesus went out to meet them, and asked them, saying, whom Seek ye? they say Jesus of Nazareth; to whom he replies, I am he; and then Judas, that betrayed him, stood with them: but Matthew, in his Gospel, Matthew 26:47, and Mark, Mark 14:43; and Luke, Luke 22:47; relate, that Judas gave a sign to the soldiers, when they came to take Jesus, saying, him whom I shall kiss, lay hold on, and they did so. But here is no contradiction, John does not deny that Judas gave a sign to the soldiers; though he omits it, it being so particularly observed by the other evangelists, and only relates what is not taken notice of by them, and which no ways contradicts what they have asserted: the force of the objection seems to lie here; that, according to the other evangelists, Judas, as soon as he came into the garden, made up to Christ, and gave the signal by which he might be known, whereas he is here said to stand with the soldiers and officers; and that seeing such a signal was given, he must be, and was known by it, whereas he is here represented as if he was not known by them until he had made himself known to them; and that as soon as Judas had given the sign, they immediately seized him, whereas, according to this account, they did not, until some words had passed between Christ and them, and they first fell to the ground. In answer to which it may be said, that admitting that Judas did make up to Christ as soon as he entered the garden, and gave the signal to the soldiers, he might upon that immediately retire, and place himself among the multitude; either to give further directions and instructions to them, or that they might defend him from Jesus, should there be any occasion for it: and though it should be allowed that the signal was given by Judas before this, it might not be discerned by the soldiers, either not being near enough to observe it; or, as some think, being stricken with blindness, for a time, as the Sodomites were; or even supposing it was seen, and they knew by it which was Jesus, it is still a fuller proof of the courage and intrepidity of Christ to go forth, and present himself to them, and put the questions he did, and confirm unto them the truth of it, that he was Jesus whom they sought: to which may be added, that it does not appear that Christ was immediately seized by the soldiers, upon the signal given them by Judas, without some intervening words and actions; for though the signal and the seizure lie very near together in the accounts of Matthew and Mark; yet Luke relates many things between them, as the question of the disciples, whether they should smite with the sword; Peter's cutting off the ear of the high priest's servant; Christ's rebuking him, and touching the servant's ear, and healing it; and some discourse which passed between him, and the chief priests, captains, and elders. All which agree with the account the Evangelist John here gives.

x R. Isaac Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 56. p. 445, 446.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 18:5. Jesus of Nazareth. — They did not say this till after Judas kissed Christ, which was the sign which he had agreed with the soldiers, &c., to give them, that they might know whom they were to seize: see Matthew 26:48. Though some harmonists place the kiss after what is spoken in the ninth verse.


 
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