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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.
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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.
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“Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I AM he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.)
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As Jesus said “ he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground!
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Once more he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
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“I told you that I AM he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.”
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He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”
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Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.
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But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”
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So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up.
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First they took him to Annas, since he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest at that time.