While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived, and with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, sent from the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people.
And he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: "Whomever I will kiss, it is he. Take hold of him."
And quickly drawing close to Jesus, he said, "Hail, Master." And he kissed him.
And Jesus said to him, "Friend, for what purpose have you come?" Then they approached, and they put their hands on Jesus, and they held him.
And behold, one of those who were with Jesus, extending his hand, drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.
Then Jesus said to him: "Put your sword back in its place. For all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Or do you think that I cannot ask my Father, so that he would give me, even now, more than twelve legions of Angels?
How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must be so?"
In that same hour, Jesus said to the crowds: "You went out, as if to a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me. Yet I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not take hold of me.
But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled." Then all the disciples fled, abandoning him.
But those who were holding Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had joined together.
Then Peter followed him from a distance, as far as the court of the high priest. And going inside, he sat down with the servants, so that he might see the end.
Then the leaders of the priests and the entire council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might deliver him to death.
And they did not find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. Then, at the very end, two false witnesses came forward,
and they said, "This man said: 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and, after three days, to rebuild it.' "
And the high priest, rising up, said to him, "Have you nothing to respond to what these ones testify against you?"
But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I bind you by an oath to the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Jesus said to him: "You have said it. Yet truly I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven."
Then the high priest tore his garments, saying: "He has blasphemed. Why do we still need witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the blasphemy.
How does it seem to you?" So they responded by saying, "He is guilty unto death."
Then they spit in his face, and they struck him with fists. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,
saying: "Prophesy for us, O Christ. Who is the one that struck you?"
Yet truly, Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a maidservant approached him, saying, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."
But he denied it in the sight of them all, saying, "I do not know what you are saying."
Then, as he exited by the gate, another maidservant saw him. And she said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth."
And again, he denied it with an oath, "For I do not know the man."
And after a little while, those who were standing nearby came and said to Peter: "Truly, you also are one of them. For even your manner of speaking reveals you."
Then he began to curse and to swear that he had not known the man. And immediately the rooster crowed.
And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, which he had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And going outside, he wept bitterly.
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