John 18:7

Plain English Version

Again, Jesus asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”

Cross References

Matthew 2:23

So he took his family up north to Galilee. He got to the town called Nazareth, and he stayed there. A long time before that, one of God’s men wrote about this, and it is in God’s book. He wrote, “People will say that God’s special man is from Nazareth.” And that happened after Joseph took his family to live at Nazareth.

John 18:4

Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him, but he went to meet them anyway. Then Jesus said to that mob, “Who are you looking for?”

John 18:8

And Jesus said to them, “I already told you that I am Jesus. I am the man you are looking for, so let these other men here go free.”