Mattityahu (Mat) 26:31-56

Yeshua then said to them, “Tonight you will all lose faith in me, as the Tanakh says, ‘I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you into the Galil.” “I will never lose faith in you,” Kefa answered, “even if everyone else does.” Yeshua said to him, “Yes! I tell you that tonight before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!” “Even if I must die with you,” Kefa replied, “I will never disown you!” And all the talmidim said the same thing. Then Yeshua went with his talmidim to a place called Gat-Sh’manim and said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Kefa and Zavdai’s two sons. Grief and anguish came over him, and he said to them, “My heart is so filled with sadness that I could die! Remain here and stay awake with me.” Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet — not what I want, but what you want!” He returned to the talmidim and found them sleeping. He said to Kefa, “Were you so weak that you couldn’t stay awake with me for even an hour? Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test — the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak.” A second time he went off and prayed. “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, let what you want be done.” Again he returned and found them sleeping, their eyes were so heavy. Leaving them again, he went off and prayed a third time, saying the same words. Then he came to the talmidim and said, “For now, go on sleeping, take your rest. . . . Look! The time has come for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s go! Here comes my betrayer!” 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. The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: “The man I kiss is the one you want — grab him!” He went straight up to Yeshua, said, “Shalom, Rabbi!” and kissed him. Yeshua said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they moved forward, laid hold of Yeshua and arrested him. 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. Yeshua said to him, “Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword. 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? But if I did that, how could the passages in the Tanakh be fulfilled that say it has to happen this way?” 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. But all this has happened so that what the prophets wrote may be fulfilled.” Then the talmidim all deserted him and ran away.