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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 18 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > John 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/17.htm" title="John 17">◄</a> John 18 <a href="../john/19.htm" title="John 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Arrest of Jesus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 26:47-56">Matthew 26.47-56</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 14:43-50">Mark 14.43-50</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 22:47-53">Luke 22.47-53</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_1"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.1" class="v43_18_1">1</span>After Jesus had said this prayer, he left with his disciples and went across Kidron Brook. There was a garden in that place, and Jesus and his disciples went in. </span><span class="v43_18_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.2" class="v43_18_2">2</span>Judas, the traitor, knew where it was, because many times Jesus had met there with his disciples. </span><span class="v43_18_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.3" class="v43_18_3">3</span>So Judas went to the garden, taking with him a group of Roman soldiers, and some Temple guards sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees; they were armed and carried lanterns and torches. </span><span class="v43_18_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.4" class="v43_18_4">4</span>Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward and asked them, “Who is it you are looking for?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.5" class="v43_18_5">5</span>“Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_5">“I am he,” he said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_5">Judas, the traitor, was standing there with them. </span><span class="v43_18_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.6" class="v43_18_6">6</span>When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they moved back and fell to the ground. </span><span class="v43_18_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.7" class="v43_18_7">7</span>Again Jesus asked them, “Who is it you are looking for?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_7">“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.8" class="v43_18_8">8</span>“I have already told you that I am he,” Jesus said. “If, then, you are looking for me, let these others go.” ( </span><span class="v43_18_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.9" class="v43_18_9">9</span>He said this so that what he had said might come true: “Father, I have not lost even one of those you gave me.”)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.10" class="v43_18_10">10</span>Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the High Priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. The name of the slave was Malchus. </span><span class="v43_18_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.11" class="v43_18_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.18.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back in its place! Do you think that I will not drink the cup of suffering which my Father has given me?”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus before Annas</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.12" class="v43_18_12">12</span>Then the Roman soldiers with their commanding officer and the Jewish guards arrested Jesus, tied him up, </span><span class="v43_18_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.13" class="v43_18_13">13</span>and took him first to Annas. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year. </span><span class="v43_18_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.14" class="v43_18_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.18.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish authorities that it was better that one man should die for all the people.</span></p><h3 class="s">Peter Denies Jesus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 26:69">Matthew 26.69</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 26:70">70</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 14:66-68">Mark 14.66-68</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 22:55-57">Luke 22.55-57</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.15" class="v43_18_15">15</span>Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was well known to the High Priest, so he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High Priest's house, </span><span class="v43_18_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.16" class="v43_18_16">16</span>while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter inside. </span><span class="v43_18_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.17" class="v43_18_17">17</span>The girl at the gate said to Peter, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_17">“No, I am not,” answered Peter.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.18" class="v43_18_18">18</span>It was cold, so the servants and guards had built a charcoal fire and were standing around it, warming themselves. So Peter went over and stood with them, warming himself.</span></p><h3 class="s">The High Priest Questions Jesus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 26:59-66">Matthew 26.59-66</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 14:55-64">Mark 14.55-64</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 22:66-71">Luke 22.66-71</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.19" class="v43_18_19">19</span>The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. </span><span class="v43_18_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.20" class="v43_18_20">20</span>Jesus answered, “I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret. </span><span class="v43_18_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.21" class="v43_18_21">21</span>Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them—they know what I said.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.22" class="v43_18_22">22</span>When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, “How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.23" class="v43_18_23">23</span>Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.24" class="v43_18_24">24</span>Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to Caiaphas the High Priest.</span></p><h3 class="s">Peter Denies Jesus Again</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 26:71-75">Matthew 26.71-75</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 14:69-72">Mark 14.69-72</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 22:58-62">Luke 22.58-62</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.25" class="v43_18_25">25</span>Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_25">But Peter denied it. “No, I am not,” he said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.26" class="v43_18_26">26</span>One of the High Priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up. “Didn't I see you with him in the garden?” he asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.27" class="v43_18_27">27</span>Again Peter said “No”—and at once a rooster crowed.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus before Pilate</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 27:1">Matthew 27.1</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 27:2">2</ref>,<ref loc="MAT 27:11-14">11-14</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 15:1-5">Mark 15.1-5</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 23:1-5">Luke 23.1-5</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.28" class="v43_18_28">28</span>Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal. </span><span class="v43_18_29"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.29" class="v43_18_29">29</span>So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you accuse this man of?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.30" class="v43_18_30">30</span>Their answer was, “We would not have brought him to you if he had not committed a crime.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.31" class="v43_18_31">31</span>Pilate said to them, “Then you yourselves take him and try him according to your own law.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_31">They replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.” ( </span><span class="v43_18_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.32" class="v43_18_32">32</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.18.32!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This happened in order to make come true what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he would die.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.33" class="v43_18_33">33</span>Pilate went back into the palace and called Jesus. “Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_34"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.34" class="v43_18_34">34</span>Jesus answered, “Does this question come from you or have others told you about me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_35"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.35" class="v43_18_35">35</span>Pilate replied, “Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests who handed you over to me. What have you done?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_36"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.36" class="v43_18_36">36</span>Jesus said, “My kingdom does not belong to this world; if my kingdom belonged to this world, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. No, my kingdom does not belong here!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_37"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.37" class="v43_18_37">37</span>So Pilate asked him, “Are you a king, then?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_37">Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_38"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.38" class="v43_18_38">38</span>“And what is truth?” Pilate asked.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Is Sentenced to Death</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 27:15-31">Matthew 27.15-31</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 15:6-20">Mark 15.6-20</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 23:13-25">Luke 23.13-25</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_38">Then Pilate went back outside to the people and said to them, “I cannot find any reason to condemn him. </span><span class="v43_18_39"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.39" class="v43_18_39">39</span>But according to the custom you have, I always set free a prisoner for you during the Passover. Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_18_40"><span class="reftext" id="John.18.40" class="v43_18_40">40</span>They answered him with a shout, “No, not him! 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