Luke 22:39-71

39He went out and made his way as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

40When he reached the place, he told them, “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.”

41Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and began to pray,

42“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me — nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

43Then an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

44Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

45When he got up from prayer and came to the disciples, he found them sleeping, exhausted from their grief.

46“Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you won’t fall into temptation.”

47While he was still speaking, suddenly a mob came, and one of the Twelve named Judas was leading them. He came near Jesus to kiss him,

48but Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

49When those around him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

50Then one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear.

51But Jesus responded, “No more of this!” And touching his ear, he healed him.

52Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal?

53Every day while I was with you in the temple, you never laid a hand on me. But this is your hour — and the dominion of darkness.”

54They seized him, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.

55They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, and Peter sat among them.

56When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”

57But he denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him.”

58After a little while, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too.” “Man, I am not!” Peter said.

59About an hour later, another kept insisting, “This man was certainly with him, since he’s also a Galilean.”

60But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

61Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

62And he went outside and wept bitterly.

63The men who were holding Jesus started mocking and beating him.

64After blindfolding him, they kept asking, “Prophesy! Who was it that hit you?”

65And they were saying many other blasphemous things to him.

66When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin.

67They said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe.

68And if I ask you, you will not answer.

69But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

70They all asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”

71“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from his mouth?”