John 18:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it out and struck the head priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear. Now the slave’s name was Malchus.

Cross References

Mark 14:47

But a certain disciple who was standing nearby [i.e., Peter. See John 18:10] drew his sword and struck the head priest’s servant [i.e., Malchus. See John 18:10], shearing off his ear.

John 18:26

One of the head priest’s slaves, who was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the orchard with him?”

Luke 22:33

And Peter replied, “Lord, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you.”

Mark 14:30

And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today, in fact this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny [knowing] me three times.”