Part 37

022:033 "Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

022:034 "I tell you, Peter," said Jesus, "that the cock will not crow to-day till you have three times denied that you know me."

022:035 Then He asked them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" "No, nothing," they replied.

022:036 "But now," said He, "let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.

022:037 For I tell you that those words of Scripture must yet find their fulfilment in me: `And He was reckoned among the lawless'; for indeed that saying about me has its accomplishment."

022:038 "Master, here are two swords," they exclaimed. "That is enough," He replied.

022:039 On going out, He proceeded as usual to the Mount of Olives, and His disciples followed Him.

022:040 But when He arrived at the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not come into temptation."

022:041 But He Himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed repeatedly, saying,

022:042 "Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup away from me; yet not my will but Thine be done!"

022:043 And there appeared to Him an angel from Heaven, strengthening Him;

022:044 while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him-- prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

022:045 When He rose from his prayer and came to His disciples, He found them sleeping for sorrow.

022:046 "Why are you sleeping?" He said; "stand up; and pray that you may not come into temptation."

022:047 While He was still speaking there came a crowd with Judas, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, at their head. He went up to Jesus to kiss Him.

022:048 "Judas," said Jesus, "are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

022:049 Those who were about Him, seeing what was likely to happen, asked Him, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?"

022:050 And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.

022:051 "Permit me thus far," said Jesus. And He touched the ear and healed it.

022:052 Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels?

022:053 While day after day I was with you in the Temple, you did not lay hands upon me; but to you belongs this hour-- and the power of darkness."

022:054 And they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the High Priest's house, while Peter followed a good way behind.

022:055 And when they had lighted a fire in the middle of the court and had seated themselves in a group round it, Peter was sitting among them,

022:056 when a maidservant saw him sitting by the fire, and, looking fixedly at him, she said, "This man also was with him."

022:057 But he denied it, and declared, "Woman, I do not know him."

022:058 Shortly afterwards a man saw him and said, "You, too, are one of them." "No, man, I am not," said Peter.

022:059 After an interval of about an hour some one else stoutly maintained: "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for in fact he is a Galilaean."

022:060 "Man, I don't know what you mean," replied Peter. No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed.