Matthew Poole and continuators on John 18:8

8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way :

Our Saviours question, and their Answer, are the same as before. They fell down, but they rose up again, and go on in their wicked purpose. This is the genius of all sinners; they may be under some convictions and terrors, but they get out of them, if God doth not concur by his Spirit, and sanctifie them as means to make a through change in their hearts: tho those words [illegible: 1 word] these go away, might be interpreted of the armed men that came with the Officers, of whom there seemed no such need to carry away an unarmed man; yet the next words make it evident, that they are to be understood of his Disciples, being persons against whom they had no warrant. Our Lord hath a care of his Disciples that they might not suffer with him.