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Joh_18:19-21. Οὖν ] Again connecting the narrative with Joh_18:13-14, after the episode of Peter.
περὶ τ . μαθητ . αὐτ . κ . π . τ . διδαχ . αὐτοῦ ] Annas[213] then put general questions, in keeping with a private hearing of the kind, but well planned, so as to connect something further according to the eventual reply.
Jesus, as far as possible, not to inculpate His disciples (Joh_18:8-9), replies, in the first instance (and further questioning was broken off, Joh_18:22), only to the second point of the interrogation, and that by putting it aside as something entirely aimless, appealing to the publicity of His life.
ἘΓῺ ΠΑΡΡΗΣΊᾼ , Κ . Τ . Λ .] I, on my part, have frankly and freely (comp. Joh_7:4, Joh_11:54) spoken to the world; παρρησ . is to be taken subjectively, without reserve, not: openly, which it does not mean, and which is first contained in τῷ ΚΌΣΜῼ . The ΚΌΣΜΟς is the whole public, as in Joh_7:4, Joh_12:19.
ἐν συναγ . κ . ἐν τ . ἱερῷ ] in synagogue (see on Joh_6:59) and in the temple. He appeals to His work of teaching not merely in Jerusalem, but as He has always carried it on, though He does not mean by πάντοτε to deny His public discourses in other places (in the open air, etc.), but only to express that He never, in the course of His teaching, withdrew Himself from synagogues and from the temple.
ὍΠΟΥ ΠΆΝΤΕς , Κ . Τ . Λ .] refers to the temple.
καὶ ἐν κρυπτῷ ἐλάλ . οὐδέν ] By which, of course, the private instructions given to His disciples (comp. also Mat_10:27) are not denied, since it is the ministry of the Teacher of the people that is here in question; and besides, those private instructions do not fall under the category of that which is secret.
τί -g0- με -g0- ἐρωτ -g0-.] For what object dost thou, ask me? μέ does not bear the emphasis; otherwise ἘΜΈ would have been used.
The second τί , quid, depends on ἐρώτησον .
ἐρώτ . τ . ἀκηκ .] “Hoc jubet lex, a testibus incipi,” Grotius.
ΟὟΤΟΙ ] The ἈΚΗΚΟΌΤΕς , not pointing to John and Peter (Ewald).
[213] Not Caiaphas. Hengstenberg imagines the situation: “Annas presides, as it were (?), at the examination, but Caiaphas might not hand over to him the properly judicial function.” So also Godet.