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In the Bible, Malchus is the servant of the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas who participated in the arrest of Jesus. According to the Bible, one of the disciples, Simon Peter, being armed with a sword, cut off the servant's ear in an attempt to prevent the arrest of Jesus.
Simon cutting off Malchus' ear is related in all four canonical gospels, in , , , and , but Simon and Malchus are named only in the Gospel of John. Also, Luke is the only gospel that says Jesus healed the servant's ear. This was Jesus' last recorded miracle prior to His resurrection.
The relevant passage in the Gospel of John, KJV, reads:
Later in Chapter 18, John records that a relative of Malchus witnessed Peter's assault in the Garden of Gethsemane, and identified Peter as a follower of Christ. Peter denied this.
Thornton Wilder wrote a short play entitled, "The Servant's Name Was Malchus." It appeared in the collection "The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays."
Malchus was portrayed by Paul Brightwell in the 2013 TV miniseries The Bible.
Malchus was a Byzantine historian. According to the Suda, Malchus or Mekselina (among to the seven sleepers on cave) was a Byzantine (i.e. from Constantinople); but Photius states that he was a native of Philadelphia; and his Syriac name makes it probable that Philadelphia was the ancient Rabbah in the country of Ammonitis, east of the River Jordan.
Malchus probably followed his profession of rhetorician or sophist at Constantinople. According to Suda, he wrote a history extending from the reign of Constantine I to that of Anastasius I; but the work in seven books, of which Photius has given an account (Bibl. cod. 78), and to which he gives the title , comprehended only the period from the final sickness of the Eastern emperor Leo I (473 or 474), to the death of Julius Nepos, emperor of the West (480). It has been supposed that this was an extract from the work mentioned by Suidas, or a mutilated copy: that it was incomplete is said by Photius himself, who says that the start of the first of the seven books showed that the author had already written some previous parts, and that the close of the seventh book showed his intention of carrying it further, if his life was spared.
Some scholars, among them Valesius, have thought that the history of Malchus began with Leo's sickness, and that he was the continuator of Priscus, whose history is supposed to have left off at that point. Barthold Georg Niebuhr supposed that this coincidence arose from Photius having met with a portion only of the work of Malchus, which had been inserted in some historical Catena after the work of Priscus; or that the history of the previous period had been given by Malchus in another work. Suidas speaks of the history in its whole extent; it may have been published in successive parts, as the author was able to finish it; and Photius possibly had met with only one part.
Photius praises the style of Malchus as a model of historical composition; pure, free from redundancy and consisting of well-selected words and phrases. He notices also his eminence as a rhetorician, and says that he was favourable to Christianity; a statement which has been thought inconsistent with the praises for Pamprepius. The works of Malchus are lost, except the portions contained in the of Constantine VII, and some extracts in Suda.
Malchus is the servant of the Jewish High Priest, Caiaphas, who participated in the arrest of Jesus.
Malchus may also refer to:
- Malchus (historian), Byzantine historian who wrote a history from Constantine to Anastasius I in 7 books
- Malchus of Syria (died c. 390), monk who was sold into slavery
- Malkuth or Malchus, the tenth of the sephirot in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life
Usage examples of "malchus".
In that account, the servant of the High Priest, a man named Malchus, was among those who went to arrest Yeshua on the night before his crucifixion.
I believe Yeshua told Malchus to put the Shroud in the Ark of the Covenant.
It seems reasonable to me to assume that Malchus, having experienced all this -- especially the healing of his ear -- may well have become a follower of Yeshua himself.
The greater number of the sixteen figures that it contains are old, and of wood, and among these are the figures of Christ, Judas, and Malchus, who is lying on the ground.
Antonini told me he had himself unburied the figure of Malchus, which he found more than half covered with earth.
The Roman soldiers were silent and did not come to aid Malchus because he was a Jew, but then they also drew back because I had healed a wound.
I would have thought that the best thing to do would be to go to one of the really good vendors of slave pedagoguesMamilius Malchus or Duronius Postumus.
It brought a devil named Andrew Malchus to do his will, and all men know the consequence.
Besides accomplishing this he exacted large sums of money from the rest individually, and large sums also from Antigonus and Antiochus and Malchus the Nabathaean, because they had given help to Pacorus.
Now perhaps Malchus was thinking of expressing his condolences to the widow in person.
Abdelmelqart had not been pleased to see Malchus aboard, but Hasdrubal had persuaded him that it was better to have him here than hanging about Qart Hadasht while Abdelmelqart was at sea.
Funny how it was always those three who came to mind: Mago the crafty thief--and what the boy had been able to see of his actions through that tiny opening was strange to be sure--Safat, the unpleasant accomplice, and Malchus, the jealous lover.
That would point to Malchus, but only, as far as he knew, where Abdelmelqart was concerned.
I believe Malchus was the kind of person in whom this rejection and loss would fester.
And Malchus, cautiously descends the mount, To buy their bread in pagan Ephesus.