John 18:2-23

2Now Judah, who was betraying Him, also knew the place, because Yeshua had often met there with His disciples.

3So Judah, having taken a band of soldiers and some officers from the ruling kohanim and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

4Then Yeshua, knowing all the things coming upon Him, went forward. He said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

5“Yeshua ha-Natzrati,” they answered Him. Yeshua tells them, “I am.” Now Judah, the one betraying Him, was also standing with them.

6So when Yeshua said to them, “I am,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

7So again He asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Yeshua ha-Natzrati.”

8Yeshua answered, “I told you, I am! If you’re looking for Me, let these men go their way.”

9This was so the word would be fulfilled that He spoke: “I did not lose one of those You have given Me.”

10Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the servant of the kohen gadol , and cut off his right ear. Now the servant’s name was Malchus.

11So Yeshua said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath! The cup the Father has given Me—shall I never drink it?”

12Then the band of soldiers, with the captain and the officers of the Judeans, seized Yeshua and tied Him up.

13They led Him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the kohen gadol that year.

14Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Judean leaders that it was better for one man to die on behalf of the people.

15Simon Peter was following Yeshua with another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the kohen gadol , so he went with Yeshua into the court of the kohen gadol .

16But Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the kohen gadol , went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

17The maidservant at the door says to Peter, “Aren’t you one of this Man’s disciples too?” He says, “No, I’m not.”

18The servants and officers were standing around a fire they had made, because it was cold and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.

19The kohen gadol then questioned Yeshua about His disciples and His teaching.

20“I have spoken openly to the world,” Yeshua answered him. “I always taught in the synagogues and the Temple, where all the Jewish people come together. I spoke nothing in secret.

21Why question Me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them. Look, they know what I said.”

22When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby gave Yeshua a slap, saying, “Is that the way you answer the kohen gadol ?”

23Yeshua answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, give evidence of the wrong; but if rightly, why hit Me?”