Jesus

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am; so that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these people have known that you sent me.

I made your name known to them, and I will continue to make it known; so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I myself may be united with them.”

After Yeshua had said all this, he went out with his talmidim across the stream that flows in winter through the Vadi Kidron, to a spot where there was a grove of trees; and he and his talmidim went into it.

Now Y’hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yeshua had often met there with his talmidim.

Yeshua, who knew everything that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Whom do you want?”

“Yeshua from Natzeret,” they answered. He said to them, “I AM.” Also standing with them was Y’hudah, the one who was betraying him.

When he said, “I AM,” they went backward from him and fell to the ground.

So he inquired of them once more, “Whom do you want?” and they said, “Yeshua from Natzeret.”

“I told you, ‘I AM,’” answered Yeshua, “so if I’m the one you want, let these others go.”

This happened so that what he had said might be fulfilled, “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”

Yeshua said to Kefa, “Put your sword back in its scabbard! This is the cup the Father has given me; am I not to drink it?”

So the detachment of Roman soldiers and their captain, together with the Temple Guard of the Judeans, arrested Yeshua, tied him up,

and took him first to ‘Anan, the father-in-law of Kayafa, who was cohen gadol that fateful year.

Shim‘on Kefa and another talmid followed Yeshua. The second talmid was known to the cohen hagadol, and he went with Yeshua into the courtyard of the cohen hagadol;

The woman at the gate said to Kefa, “Aren’t you another of that man’s talmidim?” He said, “No, I’m not.”

The cohen hagadol questioned Yeshua about his talmidim and about what he taught.

Yeshua answered, “I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret;

so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I said to them; look, they know what I said.”

At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yeshua in the face and said, “This is how you talk to the cohen hagadol?”

Yeshua answered him, “If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?”

So ‘Anan sent him, still tied up, to Kayafa the cohen hagadol.

Meanwhile, Shim‘on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Aren’t you also one of his talmidim?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”

One of the slaves of the cohen hagadol, a relative of the man whose ear Kefa had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with him in the grove of trees?”

They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor’s headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn’t want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.