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Friday, November 28th, 2025
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Wesley's New Testament

John 18:19

Then the high priest asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Annas;   Court;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Priest;   Prisoners;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caiaphas;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Annas;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Caiaphas, Joseph;   John the Apostle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Trial of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Annas;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annas ;   Annas (2);   Caiaphas (2);   Doctrines;   Peter;   Pilate;   Trial of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Officer;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John the Apostle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Annas;   Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Ostraca;   Peter, Simon;   Priest, High;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
King James Version (1611)
The high Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
King James Version
The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
English Standard Version
The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
New American Standard Bible
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
New Century Version
The high priest asked Jesus questions about his followers and his teaching.
Amplified Bible
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Legacy Standard Bible
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Berean Standard Bible
Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
Contemporary English Version
The high priest questioned Jesus about his followers and his teaching.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen hagadol questioned Yeshua about his talmidim and about what he taught.
Darby Translation
The high priest therefore demanded of Jesus concerning his disciples and concerning his doctrine.
Easy-to-Read Version
The high priest asked Jesus questions about his followers and what he taught them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
( The hie Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
George Lamsa Translation
The high priest then questioned Jesus concerning his disciples and concerning his teaching.
Good News Translation
The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
Lexham English Bible
So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
Literal Translation
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His doctrine.
American Standard Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Bible in Basic English
Then the high priest put questions to Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen Gadol therefore asked Yeshua about his talmidim, and about his teaching.
International Standard Version
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.
Etheridge Translation
And the high priest questioned Jeshu concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine.
Murdock Translation
And the high priest interrogated Jesus respecting his disciples, and respecting his doctrine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The hye priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
English Revised Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
World English Bible
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Weymouth's New Testament
So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the bischop axide Jhesu of hise disciplis, and of his techyng.
Update Bible Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Webster's Bible Translation
The high priest then asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine.
New English Translation
While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
New King James Version
The high priest then asked Jesus about His disciples and His doctrine.
New Living Translation
Inside, the high priest began asking Jesus about his followers and what he had been teaching them.
New Life Bible
The head religious leader of the Jews asked Jesus about His followers. He asked Jesus about His teaching.
New Revised Standard
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The High-priest, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.
Revised Standard Version
The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The hye preste axed Iesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.
Young's Literal Translation
The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The hye prest axed Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctryne.
Mace New Testament (1729)
In the mean time, the high priest having question'd Jesus about his disciples, and his doctrine.
THE MESSAGE
Annas interrogated Jesus regarding his disciples and his teaching. Jesus answered, "I've spoken openly in public. I've taught regularly in meeting places and the Temple, where the Jews all come together. Everything has been out in the open. I've said nothing in secret. So why are you treating me like a conspirator? Question those who have been listening to me. They know well what I have said. My teachings have all been aboveboard."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Inside the house, Annas started asking Jesus about his message and what he taught his cowboys.

Contextual Overview

13 And led him away to Annas first (for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.) 14 Caiaphas was he who had counselled the Jews, that it was expedient one man should die for the people. 15 Now Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple. That disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 16 But Peter stood at the door without: therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, and spake to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. 17 Then saith the maid, who kept the door, to Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? 18 He saith, I am not. And the servants and officers, having made a fire of coals (for it was cold) stood and warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them and warmed himself. 19 Then the high priest asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine. 20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I was continually teaching in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort, and in secret have I said nothing. 21 Why askest thou me? Ask them that heard me, what I said to them: behold, they know what I said. 22 When he had said thus, one of the officers, who stood by, gave Jesus a blow, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

asked: Luke 11:53, Luke 11:54, Luke 20:20

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:62 - Answerest Mark 4:2 - in his Acts 1:1 - of Acts 4:27 - the people Acts 7:1 - Are

Cross-References

John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine;
John 21:17
He saith to him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my sheep. He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.
Acts 27:31
Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
2 Timothy 1:5
Remembering the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; I am persuaded in thee also.
2 Timothy 2:19
But the foundation of God standeth fast, having this seal, The Lord knoweth those that are his: and, Let every one who nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from an infant thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, thro' faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The high priest then asked Jesus,.... Being now brought from Annas to Caiaphas, who was the high priest and mouth of the sanhedrim, and to whom it appertained to hear and try a cause relating to doctrine. And what he did was by putting questions to him, instead of opening the charge against him, and calling for witnesses to support it. The person he interrogated was a greater high priest than himself; was that prophet Moses spoke of, to whom the Jews were to hearken, and no other than the Son of God, and King of Israel; who, when at twelve years of age, asked the doctors questions, and answered theirs, to their great astonishment. He first inquires

of his disciples, not so much who they were, and what they were, and how many they were, and where they were now, as for what purpose he gathered them together; whether it was not with some seditious views to overturn the present government, and set up himself as a temporal prince; and this he did, that he might be able to send him, with a charge against him, to the Roman governor: he did not ask for his disciples to come and speak on his behalf, if they had anything to say for him, which, by their canons p, was allowed and encouraged:

"if any of the disciples (of the person accused) says, I have a crime to lay to his charge, they silence him; but if one of the disciples says, I have something to say in his favour, they bring him up, and place him between them; nor does he go down from thence all the day; and if there is anything in what he says, שומעין לו, "they hearken to him".''

The Jews indeed pretend q that after Jesus was found guilty, a herald went before him forty days declaring his crime, and signifying, that if anyone knew anything worthy in him, to come and declare it; but none were found: but this is all lies and falsehood, to cover their wickedness; no disciple of his was allowed to speak for him. The high priest next asked Jesus

of his doctrine; not for the sake of information and instruction, nor to see whether it was according to the Scriptures; but if it was a new doctrine, and his own, and whether it tended to idolatry or blasphemy, and whether it was factious and seditious, that so they might have wherewith to accuse him; for though they had got his person, they were at a loss for an accusation; and yet this self-same man that put these questions, and was fishing for something against him, had before given counsel to put him to death, right or wrong: all this was doing, and these questions were put to Jesus, whilst Peter was denying him.

p T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 40. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 8. q T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 43. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples - To ascertain their number and power. The charge on which they wished to arraign him was that of sedition, or of rebellion against Caesar. To make that plausible, it was necessary to show that he had made so many disciples as to form a strong and dangerous faction; but, as they had no direct proof of that, the high priest insidiously and improperly attempted to draw the Saviour into a confession. Of this he was aware, and referred him to the proper source of evidence - his open, undisguised conduct before the world.

His doctrine - His teaching. The sentiments that he inculcated. The object was doubtless to convict him of teaching sentiments that tended to subvert the Mosaic institutions, or that were treasonable against the Roman government. Either would have answered the design of the Jews, and they doubtless expected that he - an unarmed and despised Galilean, now completely in their power - would easily be drawn into confessions which art and malice could use to procure his condemnation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 18:19. Asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. — He probably asked him by what authority, or in virtue of what right, he collected disciples, formed a different sect, preached a new doctrine, and set himself up for a public reformer? As religion was interested in these things, the high priest was considered as being the proper judge. But all this, with what follows, was transacted by night, and this was contrary to established laws. For the Talmud states, Sanhed. c. iv. s. 1, that - "Criminal processes can neither commence not terminate, but during the course of the day. If the person be acquitted, the sentence may be pronounced during that day; but, if he be condemned, the sentence cannot be pronounced till the next day. But no kind of judgment is to be executed, either on the eve of the Sabbath, or the eve of any festival." Nevertheless, to the lasting infamy of this people, Christ was judicially interrogated and condemned during the night; and on the night too of the passover, or, according to others, on the eve of that feast. Thus, as I have remarked before, all the forms of justice were insulted and outraged in the case of our Lord. In this his humiliation his judgment was taken away. See Acts 8:33.


 
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