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Devotional: John 18:1-11

Today’s passage: John 18:1-11

Helpful thoughts:

  • After Jesus’ prayer, He and the disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane.  The time for Jesus’ betrayal had come.
  • In the original Greek, when we read Jesus saying, “I am he,” it simply reads, “I am.”
    • When Jesus spoke, “I am,” it knocked these soldiers, officers, chief priests, and Pharisees to the ground.  They got up and arrested Jesus.
  • Jesus didn’t need Peter’s sword, his spoken word could have defeated any army (Revelation 19:15).  But, Jesus had not come to defeat any armies.  He’d come to defeat our sin at the cross.

Questions to consider:

  1. In this moment of “capture” and arrest, how did Jesus continue to prove his innocence (His righteousness) and his deity?
  2. Why did Jesus choose to heal Malchus’ ear?  How did that miracle allow him to fulfill what was sought for in verses 8-9 and in 17:12?
  3. How would verse 11 answer the question, “How could those men have seen all this and still arrest and crucify Jesus?”  Why did all this happen?

January 6, 2023 Category: Devotions, John

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