John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 18:22
And when he had thus spoken ,.... What was so right and reasonable, in so becoming a manner, without heat or passion: one of the officers which stood by ; it may be one of those who had been sent to him and had been a hearer of him, whom Jesus might look wistfully at, or point unto, when he said the above words, at which he might be provoked: and therefore stroke Jesus with the palm of his hand ; or gave him a rap with a rod, or smote him with a staff, as some think, is the sense of... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 18:13-27
We have here an account of Christ's arraignment before the high priest, and some circumstances that occurred therein which were omitted by the other evangelists; and Peter's denying him, which the other evangelists had given the story of entire by itself, is interwoven with the other passages. The crime laid to his charge having relation to religion, the judges of the spiritual court took it to fall directly under their cognizance. Both Jews and Gentiles seized him, and so both Jews and... read more