John 18:35

³⁵“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”

John 18 marks the pivot from Jesus’ public ministry to his passion. The chapter opens with his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane, where he identifies himself with the divine name “I am he,” causing his captors to fall backward. Peter’s impulsive sword-stroke and subsequent denial f