David Guzik's commentary on John 18, where Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane and began His series of trials before religious leaders.

Inductive Bible study on John 18. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 18.

Jesus enters this garden as a second Adam, ready to do battle with Satan. The first Adam waited for Satan to come to him, but this Adam takes the initiative.

Jesus's example sums up what it means to obey the Gospel. Our role as disciples of Jesus is to understand what God wants us to do, and then do it! If we do that ...

Barabbas was a notable prisoner, a brigand, who had taken part in a certain insurrection in the city and had committed murder.

Rather than running away, Jesus actively engages those coming to arrest Him. This is partly to establish that only Jesus, not His disciples, is to be taken in.

This chapter relates, Jhn 18:1-12 The hour was now come that the captain of our salvation, who was to be made perfect by sufferings, should engage the enemy.

John's Passion account is its own sermon, extending from betrayal at a place across the valley to devotion at the foot of the cross.

1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. · 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had ...

18 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples ...