John 18:24

24 et misit eum Annas ligatum ad Caiaphan pontificem

John 18:24 Meaning and Commentary

John 18:24

Now Annas had sent him bound
As he found him, when the captain, band, and officers brought him to him; who having pleased himself with so agreeable a sight, and had asked him some few questions, and perhaps insulted him, sent him away in this manner,

unto Caiaphas the high priest:
his son-in-law, as the more proper person to be examined before; and especially as the grand council was sitting at his house. This was done before Peter's first denial of Christ; which, it is plain, was in the palace of the high priest, and not in Annas's house; though there seems no reason on this account to place these words at the end of the 13th verse, as they are by some, since they manifestly refer to time past, and do not at all obscure or hinder the true order of the history, as standing here.

John 18:24 In-Context

22 haec autem cum dixisset unus adsistens ministrorum dedit alapam Iesu dicens sic respondes pontifici
23 respondit ei Iesus si male locutus sum testimonium perhibe de malo si autem bene quid me caedis
24 et misit eum Annas ligatum ad Caiaphan pontificem
25 erat autem Simon Petrus stans et calefaciens se dixerunt ergo ei numquid et tu ex discipulis eius es negavit ille et dixit non sum
26 dicit unus ex servis pontificis cognatus eius cuius abscidit Petrus auriculam nonne ego te vidi in horto cum illo
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