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Revised Standard Version

John 18:19

The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Annas;   Court;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Priest;   Prisoners;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caiaphas;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Annas;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Caiaphas, Joseph;   John the Apostle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Trial of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Annas;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annas ;   Annas (2);   Caiaphas (2);   Doctrines;   Peter;   Pilate;   Trial of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Officer;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John the Apostle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Annas;   Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Ostraca;   Peter, Simon;   Priest, High;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
King James Version (1611)
The high Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
King James Version
The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
English Standard Version
The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
New American Standard Bible
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
New Century Version
The high priest asked Jesus questions about his followers and his teaching.
Amplified Bible
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Legacy Standard Bible
The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Berean Standard Bible
Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
Contemporary English Version
The high priest questioned Jesus about his followers and his teaching.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen hagadol questioned Yeshua about his talmidim and about what he taught.
Darby Translation
The high priest therefore demanded of Jesus concerning his disciples and concerning his doctrine.
Easy-to-Read Version
The high priest asked Jesus questions about his followers and what he taught them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
( The hie Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
George Lamsa Translation
The high priest then questioned Jesus concerning his disciples and concerning his teaching.
Good News Translation
The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
Lexham English Bible
So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
Literal Translation
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His doctrine.
American Standard Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Bible in Basic English
Then the high priest put questions to Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen Gadol therefore asked Yeshua about his talmidim, and about his teaching.
International Standard Version
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.
Etheridge Translation
And the high priest questioned Jeshu concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine.
Murdock Translation
And the high priest interrogated Jesus respecting his disciples, and respecting his doctrine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The hye priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
English Revised Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
World English Bible
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then the high priest asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.
Weymouth's New Testament
So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the bischop axide Jhesu of hise disciplis, and of his techyng.
Update Bible Version
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
Webster's Bible Translation
The high priest then asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine.
New English Translation
While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
New King James Version
The high priest then asked Jesus about His disciples and His doctrine.
New Living Translation
Inside, the high priest began asking Jesus about his followers and what he had been teaching them.
New Life Bible
The head religious leader of the Jews asked Jesus about His followers. He asked Jesus about His teaching.
New Revised Standard
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The High-priest, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The hye preste axed Iesus of his disciples and of his doctrine.
Young's Literal Translation
The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The hye prest axed Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctryne.
Mace New Testament (1729)
In the mean time, the high priest having question'd Jesus about his disciples, and his doctrine.
THE MESSAGE
Annas interrogated Jesus regarding his disciples and his teaching. Jesus answered, "I've spoken openly in public. I've taught regularly in meeting places and the Temple, where the Jews all come together. Everything has been out in the open. I've said nothing in secret. So why are you treating me like a conspirator? Question those who have been listening to me. They know well what I have said. My teachings have all been aboveboard."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Inside the house, Annas started asking Jesus about his message and what he taught his cowboys.

Contextual Overview

13 First they led him to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year. 14 It was Ca'iaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. As this disciple was known to the high priest, he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus, 16 while Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept the door, and brought Peter in. 17 The maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not." 18 Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself. 19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 20 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said." 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

asked: Luke 11:53, Luke 11:54, Luke 20:20

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:62 - Answerest Mark 4:2 - in his Acts 1:1 - of Acts 4:27 - the people Acts 7:1 - Are

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,
Genesis 18:5
while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on--since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."
Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.
Genesis 18:9
They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent."
Genesis 18:10
The LORD said, "I will surely return to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:19
No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Genesis 18:20
Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah is great and their sin is very grave,
Genesis 18:21
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me; and if not, I will know."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The high priest then asked Jesus,.... Being now brought from Annas to Caiaphas, who was the high priest and mouth of the sanhedrim, and to whom it appertained to hear and try a cause relating to doctrine. And what he did was by putting questions to him, instead of opening the charge against him, and calling for witnesses to support it. The person he interrogated was a greater high priest than himself; was that prophet Moses spoke of, to whom the Jews were to hearken, and no other than the Son of God, and King of Israel; who, when at twelve years of age, asked the doctors questions, and answered theirs, to their great astonishment. He first inquires

of his disciples, not so much who they were, and what they were, and how many they were, and where they were now, as for what purpose he gathered them together; whether it was not with some seditious views to overturn the present government, and set up himself as a temporal prince; and this he did, that he might be able to send him, with a charge against him, to the Roman governor: he did not ask for his disciples to come and speak on his behalf, if they had anything to say for him, which, by their canons p, was allowed and encouraged:

"if any of the disciples (of the person accused) says, I have a crime to lay to his charge, they silence him; but if one of the disciples says, I have something to say in his favour, they bring him up, and place him between them; nor does he go down from thence all the day; and if there is anything in what he says, שומעין לו, "they hearken to him".''

The Jews indeed pretend q that after Jesus was found guilty, a herald went before him forty days declaring his crime, and signifying, that if anyone knew anything worthy in him, to come and declare it; but none were found: but this is all lies and falsehood, to cover their wickedness; no disciple of his was allowed to speak for him. The high priest next asked Jesus

of his doctrine; not for the sake of information and instruction, nor to see whether it was according to the Scriptures; but if it was a new doctrine, and his own, and whether it tended to idolatry or blasphemy, and whether it was factious and seditious, that so they might have wherewith to accuse him; for though they had got his person, they were at a loss for an accusation; and yet this self-same man that put these questions, and was fishing for something against him, had before given counsel to put him to death, right or wrong: all this was doing, and these questions were put to Jesus, whilst Peter was denying him.

p T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 40. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 8. q T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 43. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples - To ascertain their number and power. The charge on which they wished to arraign him was that of sedition, or of rebellion against Caesar. To make that plausible, it was necessary to show that he had made so many disciples as to form a strong and dangerous faction; but, as they had no direct proof of that, the high priest insidiously and improperly attempted to draw the Saviour into a confession. Of this he was aware, and referred him to the proper source of evidence - his open, undisguised conduct before the world.

His doctrine - His teaching. The sentiments that he inculcated. The object was doubtless to convict him of teaching sentiments that tended to subvert the Mosaic institutions, or that were treasonable against the Roman government. Either would have answered the design of the Jews, and they doubtless expected that he - an unarmed and despised Galilean, now completely in their power - would easily be drawn into confessions which art and malice could use to procure his condemnation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 18:19. Asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. — He probably asked him by what authority, or in virtue of what right, he collected disciples, formed a different sect, preached a new doctrine, and set himself up for a public reformer? As religion was interested in these things, the high priest was considered as being the proper judge. But all this, with what follows, was transacted by night, and this was contrary to established laws. For the Talmud states, Sanhed. c. iv. s. 1, that - "Criminal processes can neither commence not terminate, but during the course of the day. If the person be acquitted, the sentence may be pronounced during that day; but, if he be condemned, the sentence cannot be pronounced till the next day. But no kind of judgment is to be executed, either on the eve of the Sabbath, or the eve of any festival." Nevertheless, to the lasting infamy of this people, Christ was judicially interrogated and condemned during the night; and on the night too of the passover, or, according to others, on the eve of that feast. Thus, as I have remarked before, all the forms of justice were insulted and outraged in the case of our Lord. In this his humiliation his judgment was taken away. See Acts 8:33.


 
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