4. Then Yeshua, knowing all the things coming upon Him, went forward. He said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
5. “Yeshua ha-Natzrati,” they answered Him. Yeshua tells them, “I am.” Now Judah, the one betraying Him, was also standing with them.
6. So when Yeshua said to them, “I am,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
7. So again He asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Yeshua ha-Natzrati.”
8. Yeshua answered, “I told you, I am! If you’re looking for Me, let these men go their way.”
9. This was so the word would be fulfilled that He spoke: “I did not lose one of those You have given Me.”
10. Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the servant of the kohen gadol , and cut off his right ear. Now the servant’s name was Malchus.
11. So Yeshua said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath! The cup the Father has given Me—shall I never drink it?”
12. Then the band of soldiers, with the captain and the officers of the Judeans, seized Yeshua and tied Him up.
13. They led Him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the kohen gadol that year.
14. Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Judean leaders that it was better for one man to die on behalf of the people.
15. Simon Peter was following Yeshua with another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the kohen gadol , so he went with Yeshua into the court of the kohen gadol .
16. But Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the kohen gadol , went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.
17. The maidservant at the door says to Peter, “Aren’t you one of this Man’s disciples too?” He says, “No, I’m not.”
18. The servants and officers were standing around a fire they had made, because it was cold and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.
19. The kohen gadol then questioned Yeshua about His disciples and His teaching.
20. “I have spoken openly to the world,” Yeshua answered him. “I always taught in the synagogues and the Temple, where all the Jewish people come together. I spoke nothing in secret.
21. Why question Me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them. Look, they know what I said.”