John 18:6

6. Backward, and fell Commentators, such as Stier, who explain this fall as merely a natural accident, resulting from the personal majesty of Jesus, ( as the lictor was overawed who attempted to apprehend Caius Marius,) overlook the plain evidences of a purpose and will by Jesus to give this proof that his surrender is voluntary. He first prostrates them by a stroke of unseen power; then deliberately triumphs over their impotence; then secures the escape of his disciples; then yields his person to their hands. By this miracle he sustains his declaration to Peter, Matthew 26:53; and his avowal that he himself lays down his life, John 10:17-18.