Luke 22:47–71

The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

⁴⁷While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, ⁴⁸but Jesus said to him, “Judas, is it with a kiss that you are betraying the Son of Man?” ⁴⁹When those who were around him saw what was coming, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”^{* 50}Then one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him. ⁵²Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a rebel?^{* 53}When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour and the power of darkness!”^*

Peter Denies Jesus

⁵⁴Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.^{* 55}When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. ⁵⁶Then a female servant, seeing him in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.” ⁵⁷But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” ⁵⁸A little later someone else, on seeing him, said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” ⁵⁹Then about an hour later still another kept insisting, “Surely this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean.” ⁶⁰But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. ⁶¹The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.”^{* 62}And he went out and wept bitterly.

The Mocking and Beating of Jesus

⁶³Now the men who were holding Jesusⁿ began to mock him and beat him;^{* 64}they also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?” ⁶⁵They kept heaping many other insults on him.

Jesus before the Council

⁶⁶When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together, and they brought him to their council.^{* 67}They said, “If you are the Messiah,^o tell us.” He replied, “If I tell you, you will not believe,^{* 68}and if I question you, you will not answer.^{p 69}But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” ⁷⁰All of them asked, “Are you, then, the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say that I am.”^{* 71}Then they said, “What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”