John 18:4

Knowing all that would happen, Jesus steps forward and asks whom they seek. He takes the initiative in his own arrest.

Cross-references · 26

• John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
• John 18:7So He asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered.
• Ps 27:3Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
• Acts 2:28You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’
• Acts 20:22–23And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
• Acts 4:24–28When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
• Matt 26:2“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
• Mark 10:33–34“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,
• Matt 16:21From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
• Matt 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
• Neh 6:11But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”
• John 13:11For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
• 1 Kgs 18:14–18And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
• John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
• Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Ps 3:6I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.
• Matt 17:22–23When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.
• John 10:17–18The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
• 1 Kgs 18:10As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
• Matt 20:18–19“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death
• Matt 26:21And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
• Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
• Luke 24:6–7He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:
• John 6:64However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
• Luke 18:31–33Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

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