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John 18:8
Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'
John 18:8 · Young's Literal Translation
John 18:8 in other translations
Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
“I told you that I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you are looking for Me, let these men go.”
Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
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In context
5 they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus saith to them, `I am he;' --and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --
6 when, therefore, he said to them--`I am he,' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.
7 Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'
8 Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'
9 that the word might be fulfilled that he said--`Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'
10 Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear--and the name of the servant was Malchus--
11 Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?'
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