John 18:2–12

²(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.) ³So Judas, taking the cohort and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴Then Jesus, because he^* knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?” ⁵They replied to him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am he.”^* (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.) ⁶So when he said to them, “I am he,”^* they drew back^a and fell to the ground. ⁷Then he asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” ⁸Jesus replied, “I said to you that I am he!^* So if you are looking for me, let these men go,” ⁹in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: “Those whom you have given to me—I have not lost anyone of them.”^b

¹⁰Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.) ¹¹So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into its^* sheath! The cup that the Father has given me—shall I not drink it?”

Jesus Taken to Annas

¹²Then the cohort and the military tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up,