Yahukanun (John) — 18
YAHUSHA Is Betrayed and Arrested
1 When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA had spoken these words, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA went out with His Talmidym over the Brook Kidrun, where there was a garden, which Him and His Talmidym entered.
2 Yudas, the betrayer, knew this place, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA had often gone there with His Talmidym.
3 The leading Kuhanym and Pharisees had given Yudas 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 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA fully realized all that was going to happen to Him, so He stepped forward to meet and ask them. “Who are you looking for?”
5 “They said we are looking for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA the Nazarym. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA said. “I Am He,” (Yudas, who betrayed YAHUSHA was standing with them)
6 As 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA said “I Am He,” they all drew back and fell to the ground!
7 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA asked again, “Who are you looking for?” and they replied, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA the Nazarym.
8 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA said. “I told you that I Am He,” and since I Am the One you want, let these others go.”
9 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”
10 Then Simun Kafa drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high Kuhan’s slave.
11 But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA said to Kafa, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering ABBA 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has given Me?”
YAHUSHA at the High Kuhan’s House
12 So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA and tied him up.
13 First they took 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA to Annas, since he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high Kuhan at that time.
14 Caiaphas was the one who had told the other Yahudym leaders, “It’s better that one man should die for the people.”
Kafa’s First Denial
15 Simun Kafa followed 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA, as did another of the Talmidym. That other Talmidym was acquainted with the high Kuhan, so he was allowed to enter the high Kuhan’s courtyard with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA.
16 Kafa had to stay outside the gate. Then the Talmidym who knew the high Kuhan spoke to the woman watching at the gate, and she let Kafa in.
17 The woman asked Kafa, “You are one of that man’s Talmidym, are you? “No, Kafa said, “I am not.”
18 Because it was cold, the household servants and the guards had made a charcoal fire. They stood around it, warming themselves, and Kafa stood with them, warming himself.
The High Kuhan Questions YAHUSHA
19 Then the High Kuhan began questioning 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA about his followers and what he had been teaching them.
20 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA replied, “Everyone knows what I teach. I have preached regularly in the congregation 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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA on the face. “Is that the way to answer the high Kuhan?” he demanded.
23 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA replied, “If I said anything wrong, you must prove it. But if I Am speaking the truth, why are you beating me?”
24 Then Annas bound 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA and sent him to Caiaphas, the high Kuhan.
Kafa’s Second and Third Denials
25 Meanwhile, as Kafa was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You are one of His Talmidym, are you?” then Kafa denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”
26 But one of the household slaves of the high Kuhan, a relative of the man whose ear Kafa had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you out there in the olive grove with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA?”
27 Again kafa denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.
YAHUSHA’s Trial before Pilate
28 And when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA’s trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers did not go inside because it would defile them, and they would not be allowed to celebrate the Passakh.
29 So Pilate, the governor, went out to them and asked, “What is your charge against this man?”
30 “We would not have handed him over to you if He were not 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 Yahudym leaders replied.
32 (This fulfilled 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA’s prediction about the way He would die.)
33 Then Pilate went back into His quarters and called for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA to be brought to him. “Are you the king of the Yahudym?” he asked 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA.
34 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA replied, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?”
35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Yahudym? Your own nation and the chief Kuhanym have delivered You to me. What have You done?”
36 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, My followers would fight to keep Me from being handed over to the Yahudym leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”
37 Pilate said, “So you are a king?”
Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA responded, “You say I Am a king. Actually, I was born and came into the world to testify to the Truth. All who love the Truth recognize that what I say is true.”
38 “What is truth?” Pilate asked. Then he went out again to the people and told them, “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA is not guilty of any crime.
39 But you have a custom of asking me to release one prisoner each year at Passakh. Would you like me to release this ‘King of the Yahudym’?”
40 But they shouted back, “No! Not this man. We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a revolutionary.)