officers and servants of the chief priests and the Pharisees, carrying torches and lanterns and weapons (verse 6, cf. verse 12). H. W. Watkins surmises that Gethsemane might have been belonged to "a friend or disciple" of Jesus. Where many modern translations say that Jesus "met" there with his disciples, or "gathered" there in the Revised Geneva Translation, older versions such as the King James states that they "resorted" there. The New American Standard Bible notes that the troops were the Roman cohort (, speira in is the technical word for the Roman cohort) whereas Richard Francis Weymouth identified them as a detachment of the Temple police. This was the garrison band from Fort Antonia, at the north-east corner of the Temple. Peter also came with a weapon (verses 10–11): Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. Verse 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?” Plummer notes from this verse that the evangelist's narrative confirms: the voluntariness of Christ's sufferings, and the fulfilment of a divine plan in Christ's sufferings and that the aim of the narrative is to endorse Jesus' earlier words, I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. and the evangelist's earlier commentary Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.Plummer, A. (1902), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on John 18, accessed 8 June 2019 Verse 5"Jesus of Nazareth", they answered."I am he", he said.Judas, the traitor, was standing there with them.A more literal translation of the guards' answer is "Jesus the Nazarene", which Plummer calls "a rather more contemptuous expression than 'Jesus of Nazareth'". Jesus' response is Ἐγώ εἰμι (ego eimi, I am): the word 'he' is not expressed in the Greek text. This is a familiar expression throughout John's Gospel, seen in , , , , , and . Plummer comments that "Judas, if not the chief priests, must have noticed the significant words". Verses 6 and