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Selected Verse: John 18:5 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Joh 18:5	King James	They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
They answered . . . Jesus of Nazareth--just the sort of blunt, straight forward reply one expects from military men, simply acting on their instructions. I am He--(See on Joh 6:20). Judas . . . stood with them--No more is recorded here of his part of the scene, but we have found the gap painfully supplied by all the other Evangelists.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

They answered . . . Jesus of Nazareth--just the sort of blunt, straight forward reply one expects from military men, simply acting on their instructions.

I am He--(See on Joh 6:20).

Judas . . . stood with them--No more is recorded here of his part of the scene, but we have found the gap painfully supplied by all the other Evangelists.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Of Nazareth (τὸν Ναζωραῖον) Literally, the Nazarene. Stood (εἱστήκει) Imperfect tense. Rev., correctly, was standing.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Of Nazareth (τὸν Ναζωραῖον)

Literally, the Nazarene.

Stood (εἱστήκει)

Imperfect tense. Rev., correctly, was standing.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Jesus of Nazareth - They did not say this till after Judas kissed Christ, which was the sign which he had agreed with the soldiers, etc., to give them, that they might know whom they were to seize: see Mat 26:48. Though some harmonists place the kiss after what is spoken in the ninth verse.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

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

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