\subsection{\John 18} \subsubsection{Betrayal and Arrest} \lettrine[lraise=0]{H}{aving} said these [things], \Iesous went out with his disciples across the ravine of Kedron where there was [a] garden in which he and his disciples entered. \VS{2} Now \Ioudas the [one] delivering him up also knew the place, because \Iesous often was gathered there with his disciples. \VS{3} \Ioudas therefore having received the cohort% \footnote{SPEIRAN a technical term for a Roman cohort, a force of 600 men (one tenth of a legion), although all 600 may not have been called out } and [some] officers of the chief-priests and the Pharisees, they come there with lanterns and lamps and weapons. \VS{4} \Iesous therefore having known everything coming upon him went out and says to them: Whom do you seek? \VS{5} They answered him: \Iesous the \Nazarene. He says to them: I am he. Now \Ioudas the [one] delivering him up also stood with them. \VS{6} As he said therefore to them: I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. \VS{7} Again therefore he asked them: Whom do you seek? And they said: \Iesous the \Nazarene. \VS{8} \Iesous answered: I said to you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, allow these [men] to be departing, \VS{9} in order that the word\fnLogos{} be fulfilled that said that: \begin{verse} Whom you have given me, \\ I will lose of them \negd{not one}. \end{verse} \VS{10} \Simon \Petros therefore, having [a] sword, drew it out and struck the chief-priest's slave and cut off his right ear. Now the slave's name was Malchus. \VS{11} \Iesous therefore said to \Petros: Put the sword in the sheath. The cup that the father has given me, will I \negd{not} drink it? \VS{12} The cohort therefore and the commander and the officers of the Jews arrested \Iesous and bound him, \VS{13} and led [him] first to Annan, for he was the father in law of Caiphas, who was chief-priest of that year. \VS{14} Now Caiaphas was the [one] having advised the Jews that it is profitable [that] one person\fnAnthropos{} die in behalf of the people. \subsubsection{\Petros's First Denial} \VS{15} Now \Simon \Petros and the other disciple followed \Iesous into the courtyard of the chief-priest. And that disciple was known to the chief-priest, and he went in with \Iesous into the courtyard of the chief-priest. \VS{16} Now \Petros stood outside facing the door. The other disciple, the [one] known to the chief-priest, went out and spoke to the [maid] doorkeeper, and brought in \Petros. \VS{17} Therefore the maid doorkeeper says to \Petros: You're not also one of the disciples of this person\fnAnthropos{}[, are you]\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}? He says: I am not. \VS{18} Now the slaves and the officers stood [around], having made [a] charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they warmed themselves. Now \Petros was also standing with them and warming himself. \subsubsection{\Iesous Questioned by Annas} \VS{19} The chief-priest therefore asked \Iesous concerning his disciples and his teaching. \VS{20} \Iesous answered him: I have openly spoken to the world\fnKosmos{}. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where the Jews all gather, and I spoke nothing in secret. \VS{21} Why do you ask me? Ask those having heard what I spoke to them. Behold these know what I said to them. \VS{22} But when he spoke these [things] one of the officers standing by gave [a] blow to \Iesous saying: Thus do you answer the chief-priest? \VS{23} \Iesous answered him: If I spoke badly, testify concerning the bad [in it]. But if well, why do you strike me? \VS{24} Annas therefore sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief-priest. \subsubsection{\Petros's Second and Third Denials} \VS{25} Now \Simon \Petros was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him: You aren't also one of his disciples[, are you]\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}? He denied and said: I am not. \VS{26} One of the slaves of the chief-priest, being kinsman of whom \Petros cut off his ear, says: Did I not see you in the garden with him\footnote{Grammar indicates 'yes' expected}? \VS{27} Again therefore \Petros denied [it], and immediately the cock crowed. \subsubsection{\Iesous Brought Before \Pilate} \VS{28} They therefore led \Iesous from Caiaphas into the Praetorium% \footnote{i.e. the governor's residence}. It was early morning, and they themselves did not enter the Praetorium in order that they not be defiled but may eat the Passover. \VS{29} \Pilate came out to them and said: What accusation do you bring against this person\fnAnthropos{}? \VS{30} They answered and said to him: If this man were not [a] doer of the bad, we would not have brought him to you. \VS{31} \Pilate therefore said to them: You brought him, you judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him: It is allowed for us to put \negd{no one} to death, \VS{32} in order that the word of \Iesous be fulfilled when he spoke indicating what sort of death he was [about] to be dying. \subsubsection{\Pilate Questions \Iesous} \VS{33} \Pilate therefore went in again into the Praetorium and called \Iesous and said to him: Are you the king of the Jews? \VS{34} \Iesous answered: Do you say this from yourself or did others tell you concerning me? \VS{35} \Pilate answered: Am I [a] Jew? Your nation and chief-priests have delivered you up to me. What did you do? \VS{36} \Iesous answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my officers would have fought in order that I not be delivered up to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here. \VS{37} \Pilate therefore said to him: So are you [a] king? \Iesous answered: You say that I am king. I am born for this and am come into the world for this, in order that I witness to the truth. All those being from the truth hear my voice. \VS{38} \Pilate says to him: What is truth? And having said this he again went out to the Jews, and says to them: I find nothing blameworthy in him. \VS{39} But it [is] custom for you that I release to you one [person] on the Passover. Do you wish therefore that I release to you the king of the Jews? \VS{40} They therefore cried out again saying: Not this one, but Barrabas. Now Barrabas was [an] insurrectionist% \footnote{Or `robber'. It is possible Barrabas was merely a robber or highwayman, but given the use of the word used here --- L\={E}ST\={E}S --- as used by other contemporary writers (like \Josephus), it seems more likely he was a revolutionary leader}% .