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PASSION of The Lord:
The arrest of Jesus (John Chapter 18)
JB JOHN Chapter 18
C. THE PASSION
The arrest of Jesus
18:1 After
he had said all this Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kedron valley. There was a garden there, and he went into
it with his disciples.
18:2 Judas the traitor knew the place
well, since Jesus had often met his disciples there,
18:3 and he brought the cohort to
this place together with a detachment of guards sent by the chief priests and
the Pharisees, all with lanterns and torches and weapons.
18:4 Knowing everything that was
going to happen to him, Jesus then came forward and said, 'Who are you looking
for?'
18:5 They
answered, 'Jesus the Nazarene'. He said, 'I am he'. Now Judas the traitor was
standing among them.
18:6 When
Jesus said, 'I am he', they moved back and fell to the
ground.
18:7 He asked them a second time,
'Who are you looking for?' They said, 'Jesus the Nazarene'.
18:8 'I have told you that I am he'
replied Jesus. 'If I am the one you are looking for, let these others go.'
18:9 This
was to fulfil the words he had spoken, 'Not one of
those you gave me have I lost'.
18:10 Simon Peter, who carried a
sword, drew it and wounded the high priest's servant, cutting off his right
ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
18:11 Jesus said to Peter, 'Put your
sword back in its scabbard; am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given
me?'
Jesus
before Annas and Caiaphas. Peter disowns him
18:12 The
cohort and its captain and the Jewish guards seized Jesus and bound him.
18:13 They
took him first to Annas, because Annas
was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
18:14 It was
Caiaphas who had suggested to the Jews, 'It is better for one man to die for
the people'.
18:15 Simon Peter, with another
disciple, followed Jesus. This disciple, who was known to the high priest, went
with Jesus into the high priest's palace,
18:16 but Peter stayed outside the
door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out, spoke
to the woman who was keeping the door and brought Peter in.
18:17 The
maid on duty at the door said to Peter, 'Aren't you another of that man's
disciples?' He answered, 'I am not'.
18:18 Now it
was cold, and the servants and guards had lit a charcoal fire and were standing
there warming themselves; so Peter stood there too, warming himself with the
others.
18:19 The
high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
18:20 Jesus answered, 'I have spoken
openly for all the world to hear; I have always taught
in the synagogue and in the Temple where all the Jews meet together: I have
said nothing in secret.
18:21 But why ask me? Ask my hearers
what I taught: they know what I said.'
18:22 At
these words, one of the guards standing by gave Jesus a slap in the face, saying,
'Is that the way to answer the high priest?'
18:23 Jesus replied, 'If there is
something wrong in what I said, point it out; but if there is no offence in it,
why do you strike me?'
18:24 Then Annas
sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
18:25 As Simon Peter stood there
warming himself, someone said to him, 'Aren't you another of his disciples?' He
denied it saying, 'I am not'.
18:26 One of the high priest's
servants, a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, 'Didn't I
see you in the garden with him?'
18:27 Again Peter denied it; and at
once a cock crew.
Jesus before Pilate
18:28 They
then led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium.
It was now morning. They did not go into the Praetorium
themselves or they would be defiled[*c] and unable to
eat the passover.
18:29 So Pilate came outside to them
and said, 'What charge do you bring against this man?' They replied,
18:30 'If he were not a criminal, we
should not be handing him over to you'.
18:31 Pilate said, 'Take him
yourselves, and try him by your own Law'. The Jews answered, 'We are not
allowed to put a man to death'.
18:32 This
was to fulfil the words Jesus had spoken indicating
the way he was going to die.
18:33 So Pilate went back into the Praetorium and called Jesus to him, 'Are you the king of
the Jews?' he asked.
18:34 Jesus replied, 'Do you ask this
of your own accord, or have others spoken to you about me?'
18:35 Pilate answered, 'Am I a Jew?
It is your own people and the chief priests who have handed you over to me:
what have you done?'
18:36 Jesus replied, 'Mine is not a
kingdom of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my men would have
fought to prevent my being surrendered to the Jews. But my kingdom is not of
this kind.'
18:37 'So you are a king then?' said
Pilate. 'It is you who say it' answered Jesus. 'Yes, I am a king. I was born
for this, I came into the world for this: to bear witness to the truth; and all
who are on the side of truth listen to my voice.'
18:38 'Truth?' said Pilate 'What is
that?'; and with that he went out again to the Jews
and said, 'I find no case against him.
18:39 But according to a custom of
yours I should release one prisoner at the Passover; would you like me, then,
to release the king of the Jews?'
18:40 At
this they shouted: 'Not this man,' they said 'but Barabbas'. Barabbas was a
brigand.
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