John 18:1-13

Each gospel tells the same story but is different in emphasis. John’s account of Jesus’ arrest is markedly different from the rest in that no mention is given to Judas’ kiss of betrayal. John’s gospel is also different in that it reports a scene omitted from the others, a scene in which Jesus asks, “Whom seek ye?”

These differences are not by accident. John wrote his gospel more than two decades after those…