“When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 18 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.