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42 "Father, remove this cup from me. But please, not what I want. What do you want?"
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“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
43 At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening him.
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An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
44 He prayed on all the harder. Sweat, wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face.
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And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
45 He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief.
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When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
46 He said, "What business do you have sleeping? Get up. Pray so you won't give in to temptation."
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“Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”
47 No sooner were the words out of his mouth than a crowd showed up, Judas, the one from the Twelve, in the lead. He came right up to Jesus to kiss him.
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While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him,
48 Jesus said, "Judas, you would betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"
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but Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
49 When those with him saw what was happening, they said, "Master, shall we fight?"
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When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”
50 One of them took a swing at the Chief Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.
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And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
51 Jesus said, "Let them be. Even in this." Then, touching the servant's ear, he healed him.
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But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
52 Jesus spoke to those who had come - high priests, Temple police, religion leaders: "What is this, jumping me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal?
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Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?
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