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We turn to our main topic, another installment with our ongoing Bible Survey.
Jesus Taken:
John 18:1-11
Judas betrays Jesus.
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
3 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Jesus and the disciples
* left the room where they had convened,
* descended from the city,
* crossed the Kidron Valley,
* and made their way up the lower slope of the Mount of Olives,
which lay to the east of Jerusalem.
Gethsemane, (or Oil Press) Was the olive grove on the side of the mountain
* Jesus often used the Garden of Gethsemane as a meeting place with his disciples
* And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.
Luke 22:39).
We can speculate Judas, tried to find Jesus at the house where he ate the Last Supper, then went to Gethsemane, to locate him there.
The Greek word for “detachment of soldiers” Indicates a tenth of a legion, or about six hundred men.
However, other Gospels Claim that the arrest was Made by a “crowd” indicating an armed mob.
(Matt 26:47; Mark 14:43).
The officers fall to the ground.
4 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am he.”
Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
6 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,”
they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?”
And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go.”
9 This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken:
“Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”
Jesus was not taken unwillingly or by surprise. Had he wished, he could have escaped.
Now “the time” had come He did not wait to be apprehended but voluntarily confronted his enemies.
In the darkness of the garden the soldiers were not sure which man they wanted.
Jesus came forward and asked them. When they replied, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus replied, “I am he.”
Jesus’ reply may have startled the arresting party by its openness and readiness. If his reply was intended as an assertion of deity, his commanding presence temporarily unnerved his captors.
In addition, Jesus’ intent seems meant to shield the disciples. he sacrificed himself for their safety. He had promised the Father that he would protect them
The event of verse 8 is an illustration of substitutionary atonement that fulfills John’s Gospel. Refer to (1:29; 3:14-16; 10:11, 15-18; 12:32; 17:19).
Peter smites off Malchus’ ear.
10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)
11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I...
