Matthew Poole and continuators on John 18:6

6 Assoon then as he had said unto them, I am [illegible: 1 letter]e, they went backward and fell to the ground .

For a further evidence to the World, that Christ was the Son of the Everlasting Father; it pleased God in all the periods of his life, to shew forth by him some Acts of the Divine Power: What had Christ said or done, here to prostrate his Armed adversaries? He had onely asked them whom they lookt for? and hearing that it was for him, told them he was the man: they are struck with a terror, and instead of apprehending him, start from him, and fall down to the ground. If there were so much Majesty in, and such an effect of the Voice of Christ, in one of the lowest acts of his humiliation; what will the Voice of a glorified Christ be to sinners, when he shall return as a Judge to condemn the World? And what will the effect of that be upon his enemies? How easily might our Saviour have escaped, now that his enemies were fallen to the ground? But he suffereth them to rise up again, to take him, and to carry him away, to shew that he laid down his life freely.