1 After saying these things, Jesus went out with his disciples to the other side of the Kidron ravine. There was a garden there, and he and his disciples went into it.
2 Judas, his betrayer, also knew the place, because Jesus had often gathered there with his disciples.
3 So Judas took the cohort of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
4 Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to him, stepped forward and asked them, "Who is it you are looking for?"
5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." He told them, "I am he." Judas, his betrayer, was standing there with them too.
6 When he told them, "I am he," they stepped back and fell to the ground.
7 So he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. So if it is me you want, let these men go."
9 This was to fulfill the word he had spoken: "Of those you have given me, I have not lost a single one."
10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
11 Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. The cup the Father has given me, am I not to drink it?"
12 So the cohort, its commander, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up.
13 They brought him first to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
14 Caiaphas was the one who had counseled the Jews that it was better for one man to die on behalf of the people.
15 Simon Peter was following Jesus, along with another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard,
16 while Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, the high priest's acquaintance, went out, spoke to the woman at the door, and brought Peter in.
17 The servant girl at the door said to Peter, "Surely you are not one of this man's disciples too?" He said, "I am not."
18 The servants and officers had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they stood around it warming themselves. Peter too was standing with them, warming himself.
19 The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
20 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always come together; I said nothing in secret.
21 Why are you questioning me? Question those who heard what I told them. They know what I said."
22 When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus and said, "Is this the way you answer the high priest?"
23 Jesus answered him, "If I said something wrong, testify to what was wrong; but if I spoke rightly, why do you hit me?"
24 So Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing there warming himself. They said to him, "Surely you are not one of his disciples too?" He denied it: "I am not."
26 One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"
27 Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster crowed.
28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They did not go into the headquarters themselves, so as not to become defiled and be unable to eat the Passover.
29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What charge are you bringing against this man?"
30 They answered him, "If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."
31 Pilate told them, "You take him and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "We are not permitted to put anyone to death."
32 This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was going to die.
33 Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
34 Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on your own, or did others tell you about me?"
35 Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and its chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"
36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."
37 Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You are saying that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" With that he went out again to the Jews and told them, "I find no case against him at all.
39 But it is your custom that I release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?"
40 Again they all shouted, "Not this one, but Barabbas!" Barabbas was a bandit.