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Then Jesus, fully aware of everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They answered, “Jesus the Nazorean.”[a] Jesus replied, “I am.” Judas who betrayed him was standing with them.

When Jesus said to them, “I am,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:5 Nazorean: this is the form found in Mt (2:23 and 26:71) and Acts (e.g., 2:22), not the Nazarene of Mark. I am: probably intended by John as an expression of divinity (see note on Jn 4:26).