Luke 22:45-56

⁴⁵Then he rose from praying, and came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow.

⁴⁶“Why are you asleep?” he asked them. “Rise and pray so that you don't fall into temptation.”

⁴⁷While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared in sight, led by the man called Judas, who was one of the Twelve. Judas approached Jesus, to kiss him;

⁴⁸at which Jesus said to him, “Judas, is it by a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?”

⁴⁹But when those who were around Jesus saw what was going to happen, they exclaimed, “Master, should we use our swords?”

⁵⁰And one of them struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear;

⁵¹at which Jesus said, “Let me at least do this”; and, touching his ear, he healed the wound.

⁵²Then, turning to the chief priests and officers in charge at the Temple and the elders, who had come for him, he said, “Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs?

⁵³When I was with you day after day in the Temple Courts, you did not lay hands on me; but now your time has come, and the power of darkness.”

⁵⁴Those who had taken Jesus prisoner took him away into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance.

⁵⁵But, when they had lit a fire in the centre of the courtyard and had all sat down there, Peter seated himself in the middle of them.

⁵⁶Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. She looked carefully at him and said, “Why, this man was one of his companions!”