Then Jesus, because he[a] knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?” They replied to him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am he.”[b] (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.) So when he said to them, “I am he,”[c] they drew back[d] and fell to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:4 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal
  2. John 18:5 *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 18:6 *Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. John 18:6 Literally “they went to the back”