Every Woman's Bible Journaling Edition, Filament Enabled - Book - Page 46
JOHN 18
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I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me
because you loved me even before the world began!
25 “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you,
but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. 26I have
revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then
your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”
Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested
After saying these things, Jesus crossed the
Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered
a grove of olive trees. 2 Judas, the betrayer, knew this
place, because Jesus had often gone there with his
disciples. 3 The leading priests and Pharisees had
given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and
Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at
the olive grove.
4 Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen
to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who
are you looking for?” he asked.
5 “Jesus the Nazarene,”* they replied.
“I Am he,”* Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him,
was standing with them.) 6As Jesus said “I Am he,”
they all drew back and fell to the ground! 7 Once more
he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”
And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8 “I told you that I Am he,” Jesus said. “And since I
am the one you want, let these others go.” 9 He did
this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a
single one of those you have given me.”*
10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed
off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.
11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into
its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering
the Father has given me?”
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Jesus at the High Priest’s House
So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the
Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up. 13First
they took him to Annas, since he was the father-in-law
of Caiaphas, the high priest at that time.* 14Caiaphas
was the one who had told the other Jewish leaders,
“It’s better that one man should die for the people.”
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Peter’s First Denial
Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another of the
disciples. That other disciple was acquainted with
the high priest, so he was allowed to enter the high
priest’s courtyard with Jesus. 16 Peter had to stay outside the gate. Then the disciple who knew the high
priest spoke to the woman watching at the gate, and
she let Peter in. 17 The woman asked Peter, “You’re not
one of that man’s disciples, are you?”
“No,” he said, “I am not.”
18 Because it was cold, the household servants and
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the guards had made a charcoal fire. They stood
around it, warming themselves, and Peter stood with
them, warming himself.
The High Priest Questions Jesus
Inside, the high priest began asking Jesus about
his followers and what he had been teaching them.
20 Jesus replied, “Everyone knows what I teach. I
have preached regularly in the synagogues and the
Temple, where the people* gather. I have not spoken
in secret. 21 Why are you asking me this question?
Ask those who heard me. They know what I said.”
22 Then one of the Temple guards standing nearby
slapped Jesus across the face. “Is that the way to answer the high priest?” he demanded.
23 Jesus replied, “If I said anything wrong, you must
prove it. But if I’m speaking the truth, why are you
beating me?”
24 Then Annas bound Jesus and sent him to Caiaphas, the high priest.
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Peter’s Second and Third Denials
Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the
fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re
not one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”
26 But one of the household slaves of the high priest,
a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,
asked, “Didn’t I see you out there in the olive grove
with Jesus?” 27Again Peter denied it. And immediately
a rooster crowed.
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Jesus’ Trial before Pilate
Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours
of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters
of the Roman governor.* His accusers didn’t go inside
because it would defile them, and they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover. 29So Pilate, the governor, went out to them and asked, “What is your charge
against this man?”
30 “We wouldn’t have handed him over to you if he
weren’t a criminal!” they retorted.
31 “Then take him away and judge him by your own
law,” Pilate told them.
“Only the Romans are permitted to execute someone,” the Jewish leaders replied. 32 (This fulfilled
Jesus’ prediction about the way he would die.*)
33 Then Pilate went back into his headquarters and
called for Jesus to be brought to him. “Are you the
king of the Jews?” he asked him.
34 Jesus replied, “Is this your own question, or did
others tell you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate retorted. “Your own people
and their leading priests brought you to me for trial.
Why? What have you done?”
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18:5a Or Jesus of Nazareth; also in 18:7. 18:5b Or “The ‘I Am’ is here”; or “I am the Lord”; Greek reads I am; also in 18:6, 8. See
Exod 3:14. 18:9 See John 6:39 and 17:12. 18:13 Greek that year. 18:20 Greek Jewish people; also in 18:38. 18:28 Greek to the
Praetorium; also in 18:33. 18:32 See John 12:32-33.
