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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. Again, he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazorean.”

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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).