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Get up! Let's go! Here comes my betrayer!"
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While Yeshua was still speaking, Y'hudah (one of the Twelve!) came, and with him a large crowd carrying swords and clubs, from the head cohanim and elders of the people.
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The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: "The man I kiss is the one you want -- grab him!"
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He went straight up to Yeshua, said, "Shalom, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
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Yeshua said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they moved forward, laid hold of Yeshua and arrested him.
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At that, one of the men with Yeshua reached for his sword, drew it out and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.
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Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword.
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Don't you know that I can ask my Father, and he will instantly provide more than a dozen armies of angels to help me?
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But if I did that, how could the passages in the Tanakh be fulfilled that say it has to happen this way?"
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Then Yeshua addressed the crowd: "So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion? Every day I sat in the Temple court, teaching; and you didn't seize me then.
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But all this has happened so that what the prophets wrote may be fulfilled." Then the talmidim all deserted him and ran away.