When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
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Gill's Exposition
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest,.... The person that drew his sword, and performed this daring action, not waiting for an answer from Christ, was Peter, and the high priest's…
See this explained in Mat 26:48-56. Luk 22:48 Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? - By the “Son of man” was evidently meant “the Messiah.” Judas had had the most satisfactory evidence of that,…
Satan, finding himself baffled in his attempts to terrify our Lord Jesus, and so to put him out of the possession of his own soul, betakes himself (according to his usual method) to force and arms,…
Cambridge Bible
they Specially Peter, but the Synoptists suppress his name from obviously prudential reasons which no longer existed when St John wrote.
Lord, shall we smite with the sword? Since it was illegal to…