Jesus

On leaving, Yeshua went as usual to the Mount of Olives; and the talmidim followed him.

When he arrived, he said to them, “Pray that you won’t be put to the test.”

He went about a stone’s throw away from them, kneeled down and prayed,

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, let not my will but yours be done.”

There appeared to him an angel from heaven giving him strength,

and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

On rising from prayer and coming to the talmidim, he found them sleeping because of their grief.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people arrived, with the man called Y’hudah (one of the Twelve!) leading them. He came up to Yeshua to kiss him,

but Yeshua said to him, “Y’hudah, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

When his followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we use our swords?”

But Yeshua answered, “Just let me do this,” and, touching the man’s ear, he healed him.

Then Yeshua said to the head cohanim, the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come to seize him, “So you came out just as you would to the leader of a rebellion, with swords and clubs?

Every day I was there with you in the Temple court, yet you didn’t arrest me. But this is your hour — the hour when darkness rules.”

Having seized him, they led him away and brought him into the house of the cohen hagadol. Kefa followed at a distance;

One of the servant girls saw him sitting in the light of the fire, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.”

But he denied it: “Lady, I don’t even know him.”

About an hour later, another man asserted emphatically, “There can be no doubt that this fellow was with him, because he too is from the Galil!”

The Lord turned and looked straight at Kefa; and Kefa remembered what the Lord had said, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

Meanwhile, the men who were holding Yeshua made fun of him. They beat him,

blindfolded him, and kept asking him, “Now, ‘prophesy’! Who hit you that time?”

And they said many other insulting things to him.

At daybreak, the people’s council of elders, including both head cohanim and Torah-teachers, met and led him off to their Sanhedrin,

where they said, “If you are the Mashiach, tell us.” He answered, “If I tell you, you won’t believe me;

and if I ask you, you won’t answer.

But from now on, the Son of Man will be sitting at the right hand of HaG’vurah,”