The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 18

¹ These things saying, Jesus came out with His disciples to the other side of the Kedron winter brook, where there was a garden, into which He entered, He and His disciples.
² Now Judas also, who is giving Him up, was acquainted with the place, for often was Jesus gathered there with His disciples.
³ Judas, then, getting a squad and deputies of the chief priests and Pharisees, is coming there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
⁴ Jesus, then, being aware of all that is coming on Him, coming out, said to them, "Whom are you seeking?"
⁵ They answered Him, "Jesus, the Nazarene." Jesus is saying to them, "I am He." Now Judas, also, who is giving Him up, stood with them.
⁶ As, then, He said to them, "I am He," they drop behind and fall on the ground.
⁷ Again, then, He inquires of them, "Whom are you seeking?" Now they said, "Jesus, the Nazarene."
⁸ Jesus answered, "I said to you that I am He. If, then, Me you are seeking, let these go away,"
⁹ that fulfilled may be the saying which He said, that "Of those whom Thou hast given Me, of them I do not lose anyone."
¹⁰ Simon Peter, then, having a sword, draws it, and hits the chief priest's slave and strikes off his right ear. Now the name of the slave was Malchus.
¹¹ Jesus, then, said to Peter, "Thrust the sword into the scabbard. The cup which the Father has given Me, may I by no means be drinking it?"
¹² The squad, then, and the captain, and the deputies of the Jews apprehended Jesus. And they bind Him,
¹³ and led Him away to Hannas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the chief priest of that year.
¹⁴ Now it was Caiaphas who advises the Jews that it is expedient for one man to be dying for the people.
¹⁵ Now Simon Peter, and another disciple, followed Jesus. Now that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered together with Jesus into the courtyard of the chief priest.
¹⁶ Yet Peter stood at the door outside. The other disciple, then, who was known to the chief priest, came out and told the doorkeeper, and he led Peter in.
¹⁷ The maid, then, who kept the door, is saying to Peter, "Are not you also of this man's disciples?" He is saying, "I am not!"
¹⁸ Now the slaves and deputies also stood by, having made a charcoal fire, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. Now Peter, also, was standing with them, and warming himself.
¹⁹ The chief priest, then, asks Jesus concerning His disciples and concerning His teaching.
²⁰ And Jesus answered him, "I with boldness have spoken to the world. I always teach in a synagogue and in the sanctuary where all the Jews are coming together, and in hiding I speak nothing.
²¹ Why are you asking Me? Inquire of those who have heard what I speak to them. Lo! these are aware what I said."
²² Now at His saying these things, one of the deputies standing by gives Jesus a slap, saying, "Are you answering the chief priest thus?"
²³ Jesus answered him, "If evilly I speak, testify concerning the evil, yet if ideally, why are you lashing Me?"
²⁴ Hannas, then, dispatches Him bound to Caiaphas, the chief priest.
²⁵ Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said, then, to him, "Are not you, also, of his disciples?" He disowns, and said, "I am not."
²⁶ One of the slaves of the chief priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter strikes off, is saying, "Did not I perceive you in the garden with him?"
²⁷ Again, then, Peter disowns. And immediately a cock crows.
²⁸ They are, then, leading Jesus from Caiaphas into the pretorium. Now it was morning, and they did not enter into the pretorium lest they may be defiled, but may be eating the passover.
²⁹ Pilate, then, came outside to them and is averring, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"
³⁰ They answered and said to him, "If this man were doing no evil, we would not give him up to you."
³¹ Pilate, then, said to them, "You take him and, according to your law, judge him." The Jews, then, said to him, "To us it is not allowed to kill anyone,"
³² that the word of Jesus may be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to be dying.
³³ Again, then, Pilate entered into the pretorium and summons Jesus, and said to Him, "You are the king of the Jews?"
³⁴ Jesus answered him, "From yourself are you saying this, or did others tell you concerning Me?"
³⁵ Pilate answered, "No Jew am I! Your nation and the chief priests give you up to me. What is it you do?"
³⁶ Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My deputies, also, would have contended, lest I should be given up to the Jews. Yet now is My kingdom not hence."
³⁷ Pilate, then, said to Him, "Is it not then so? A king are you!" Jesus answered, "You are saying that I am a king. For this also have I been born, and for this have I come into the world, that I should be testifying to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth is hearing My voice."
³⁸ Pilate is saying to Him, "What is truth!" And, this saying, again he came out to the Jews, and is saying to them, "I not one fault am finding in him.
³⁹ Now it is your usage that I should be releasing one to you in the Passover. Are you intending, then, that I should be releasing to you the king of the Jews?"
⁴⁰ They, then, all clamor again, saying, "Not this one, but Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.

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