John 18:1–14

¹Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples. ²And Judas also, who delivered him up, knew the place, because Jesus was often there, in company with his disciples. ³Judas therefore, having got the band, and officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye? ⁵They answered him, Jesus the Nazaraean. Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas also, who delivered him up, stood with them. ⁶When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went away backward and fell to the ground. ⁷He demanded of them therefore again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus the Nazaraean. ⁸Jesus answered, I told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go away; ⁹that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, As to those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them. ¹⁰Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and smote the bondman of the high priest and cut off his right ear; and the bondman’s name was Malchus. ¹¹Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it? ¹²The band therefore, and the chiliarch, and the officers of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him:

¹³and they led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. ¹⁴But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.