John 18:8

World English Bible (2000)

Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

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  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
  • Mark 14:50-52 : 50 They all left him, and fled. 51 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
  • John 10:28 : 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  • John 13:36 : 36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."
  • John 16:32 : 32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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    4Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

    5They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

    6When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground.

    7Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

  • John 18:20-21
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    20Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

  • John 8:18-26
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    18I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

    19They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

    21Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

    22The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

    23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

    25They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

    26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

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    9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none."

  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

  • John 8:28
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    28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

  • Luke 22:67-68
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    67"If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,

    68and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

  • John 4:26
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    26Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

  • Mark 14:48
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    48Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

  • John 8:58-59
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    58Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

    59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.

  • John 8:12
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    12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

  • John 16:5
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    5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

  • John 9:9
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    9Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

  • John 14:31
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    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

    55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

    29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

  • John 14:28
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    28You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 7:33-34
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    33Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

    34You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

  • John 18:37
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    37Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

  • John 7:36
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    36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

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    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."

  • John 10:39
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    39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

  • John 9:37
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    37Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

  • John 13:19
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    19From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

  • John 13:33
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    33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

  • John 10:25
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    8He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"

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    28I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

  • John 17:8
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  • John 8:46
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    46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  • John 18:39
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    39But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"