John 18:1-10

1 After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.

2 Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.

3 The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.

4 Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked.

5 “Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I AM he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.)

6 As Jesus said “ he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground!

7 Once more he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

8 “I told you that I AM he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.”

9 He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”

10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Jesus of Nazareth; also in 18:7 .
• [b]. Or “The ‘ ’ is here”; or “I am the ”; Greek reads I am; also in 18:6, 8 . See Exod 3:14 .
• [c]. See John 6:39 and 17:12 .