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Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Take him."
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Immediately he came to Yeshua, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
50
Yeshua said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Yeshua, and took him.
51
Behold, one of those who were with Yeshua stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the Kohen Gadol, and struck off his ear.
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Then Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
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Or do you think that I can't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
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How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
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In that hour Yeshua said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
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But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the talmidim left him, and fled.
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Those who had taken Yeshua led him away to Kayafa, the Kohen Gadol, where the Sofrim and the Zakenim were gathered together.
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But Kefa followed him from a distance, to the court of the Kohen Gadol, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.