3The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.
4Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked.
5“Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.)
6As Jesus said “I am he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground!
7Once more he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8“I told you that I am he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.”
9He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”
10Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.
11But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”
12So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up.
