John 18:1-9

1After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.

2Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.

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.”