\subsection{Ioannes 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 Judas the [one] delivering him up also knew the place, 
because Iesous often was gathered there with his disciples. 
\VS{3} Judas 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 Judas 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 Peter 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 Peter: 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{Peter's First Denial}
\VS{15} Now Simon Peter 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 Peter 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 Peter. 
\VS{17} Therefore the maid doorkeeper says to Peter: 
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 Peter 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{Peter's Second and Third Denials}
\VS{25} Now Simon Peter 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 Peter cut off his ear, says: 
Did I not see you in the garden with him\footnote{Grammar indicates 'yes' expected}?
\VS{27} Again therefore Peter denied [it], and straightway 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 Iosephus), 
it seems more likely he was a revolutionary leader}%
.
