The Life of Jesus

“Shim‘on, Shim‘on, listen! The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat!

But I prayed for you, Shim‘on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!”

Shim‘on said to him, “Lord, I am prepared to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Yeshua replied, “I tell you, Kefa, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”

He said to them, “When I sent you out without wallet, pack or shoes, were you ever short of anything?” “Not a thing,” they answered.

“But now,” he said, if you have a wallet or a pack, take it; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your robe to buy one.

For I tell you this: the passage from the Tanakh that says, ‘He was counted with transgressors,’ has to be fulfilled in me; since what is happening to me has a purpose.”

They said, “Look, Lord, there are two swords right here!” “Enough!” he replied.

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.

He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you won’t be put to the test!”

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?”

One of them struck at the slave of the cohen hagadol and cut off his right ear.

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;

but when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Kefa joined them.