< John 18 >

1 After Jesus had finished speaking, he and his disciples crossed over the Kidron brook and went into an olive grove.
Having said these things, Jesus went forth with His disciples beyond the Brook of Kidron, where [there] was a garden, into which He entered, Himself and His disciples,
2 Judas the betrayer knew the place, for Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.
and Judas also, who delivered Him up, had known the place, because Jesus assembled there with His disciples many times.
3 So Judas took with him a troop of soldiers together with guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees. They arrived there carrying torches, lanterns, and weapons.
Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with torches and lamps, and weapons;
4 Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him. He went to meet them, and asked, “Who are you looking for?”
Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming on Him, having gone forth, said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
5 “Are you Jesus of Nazareth?” they asked. “I am,” Jesus told them. Judas the betrayer was standing with them.
They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene”; Jesus says to them, “I AM”; and Judas who delivered Him up was standing with them.
6 When Jesus said “I am,” they fell back and dropped to the ground.
When, therefore, He said to them, “I AM,” they went away backward, and fell to the ground.
7 So he asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” “Are you Jesus of Nazareth?” they asked again.
Again, therefore, He questioned them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene”;
8 “I already told you I am,” Jesus replied. “So if I'm the one you're looking for, let these others go.”
Jesus answered, “I said to you that I AM; if, then, you seek Me, permit these to go away”;
9 These words fulfilled what he had previously said: “I have not lost any of those you gave me.”
that the word might be fulfilled that He said, “Those whom You have given to Me, I did not lose even one of them.”
10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and struck Malchus, the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.
Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear—and the name of the servant was Malchus—
11 Jesus told Peter, “Put the sword away! Do you think I shouldn't drink the cup the Father has given me?”
Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father has given to Me, may I not drink it?”
12 Then the soldiers, their commander, and the Jewish guards arrested Jesus and tied his hands.
The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound Him,
13 First they took him to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the current high priest.
and they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,
14 Caiaphas was the one who had told the Jews, “It's better that one man die for the people.”
and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews that it is good for one man to perish for the people.
15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple did so too. This disciple was well-known to the high priest, and so he entered the high priest's courtyard with Jesus.
And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus into the hall of the chief priest,
16 Peter had to remain outside by the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest went and spoke to the servant girl watching the door and brought Peter inside.
and Peter was standing at the door outside, therefore the other disciple who was known to the chief priest went forth, and he spoke to the doorkeeper, and he brought in Peter.
17 The girl asked Peter, “Aren't you one of that man's disciples?” “Me? No, I'm not,” he replied.
Then the maid, the doorkeeper, says to Peter, “Are you also of the disciples of this Man?” He says, “I am not”;
18 It was cold, and the servants and guards were standing by a fire they had made, warming themselves. Peter went and stood with them, warming himself.
and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.
19 Then the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and what he had been teaching.
The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning His disciples, and concerning His teaching;
20 “I've spoken openly to everyone,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in the synagogues and in the Temple where all the Jewish people meet. I haven't said anything in secret.
Jesus answered him, “I spoke freely to the world, I always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews always come together; and I spoke nothing in secret;
21 So why are you questioning me? Ask the people who heard me what I told them. They know what I said.”
why do you question Me? Question those having heard what I spoke to them; behold, these have known what I said.”
22 When he said this, one of the guards standing nearby slapped Jesus, saying, “Is that any way to speak to the high priest?”
And He having said these things, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a slap, saying, “Thus do You answer the chief priest?”
23 Jesus replied, “If I said something wrong, tell everyone what was wrong with it. But if what I said was right, why did you hit me?”
Jesus answered him, “If I spoke ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why do you strike Me?”
24 Annas sent him, his hands still tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.
Annas then sent Him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.
25 As Simon Peter stood warming himself by the fire, the people there asked him, “Aren't you one of his disciples?” Peter denied it and said, “No, I'm not.”
And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, then they said to him, “Are you also of His disciples?” He denied and said, “I am not.”
26 One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked Peter, “Didn't I see you in the olive grove with him?”
One of the servants of the chief priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, says, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
27 Peter denied it again, and immediately a cock crowed.
Again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28 Early in the morning they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. The Jewish leaders didn't enter the palace because if they did they would be ceremonially defiled, and they wanted to be able to eat the Passover meal.
They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover;
29 So Pilate came out to meet them. “What charge are you bringing against this man?” he asked.
Pilate, therefore, went forth to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”
30 “If he wasn't a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you,” they answered.
They answered and said to him, “If He were not doing evil, we had not delivered Him to you.”
31 “Then you take him and judge him according to your law,” Pilate told them. “We're not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews answered.
Pilate, therefore, said to them, “Take Him—you—and judge Him according to your law”; the Jews, therefore, said to him, “It is not lawful to us to put anyone to death”;
32 This fulfilled what Jesus had said about how he would die.
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to die.
33 Pilate went back into the governor's palace. He summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Pilate, therefore, entered into the Praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to Him, “You are the King of the Jews?”
34 “Did you think of this question yourself, or did others talk to you about me?” Jesus responded.
Jesus answered him, “Do you say this from yourself? Or did others say it to you about Me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate countered. “It was your own people and high priests who handed you over to me. What is it that you've done?”
Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests delivered You up to me; what did You do?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it was of this world, my subjects would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from here.”
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, My officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”
37 Then Pilate asked, “So you are a king, then?” “You say that I'm a king,” Jesus replied. “The reason why I was born and I came to the world was to give evidence for the truth. All those who accept the truth pay attention to what I say.”
Pilate, therefore, said to Him, “Are You then a king?” Jesus answered, “You say [it], because I am a king; I have been born for this, and I have come into the world for this, that I may testify to the truth; everyone who is of the truth, hears My voice.”
38 “What is truth?” Pilate asked. Having said this Pilate went back out to the Jews and told them, “I find him not guilty of any crime.
Pilate says to Him, “What is truth?” And having said this, again he went forth to the Jews and says to them, “I find no fault in Him;
39 However, it is customary for me to release a prisoner to you at Passover. Do you want me to release the King of the Jews?”
and you have a custom that I will release to you one in the Passover; do you determine, therefore, [that] I will release to you the King of the Jews?”
40 “No, not him! We want Barabbas instead!” they shouted back. Barabbas was a rebel.
Therefore they all cried out again, saying, “Not this One—but Barabbas”; and Barabbas was a robber.

< John 18 >