John

After he said that, Isa went out with his hawariyun across Kidron Valley. He and his hawariyun entered an orchard.

Yahuda, his betrayer, knew that place, because Isa often met with his hawariyun there.

Yahuda went to the orchard, accompanied by a group of soldiers and officers. The leading ahbar and the Pharisees had sent them with Yahuda. They were carrying lamps, torches, and weapons.

Isa knew everything that was going to happen to him. So he went out to them and said, "Whom do you want?"

They answered, "We want Isa Al-Nasiri." He told them, "I am he." Yahuda, his betrayer, was standing with them.

When he said, "I am he," they withdrew and fell on the ground.

He asked them again, "Whom do you want?" They said, "We want Isa Al-Nasiri."

He answered them, "I told you: I am he. So if you want me, let these people go."

His word was truly fulfilled in this, when he said, "I have not lost any of the people you gave me."

Then Simon Peter took his sword out and with it, he hit the slave of the chief habr, who was named Malchus. He cut off his right ear.

Isa commanded Peter, "Put your sword back! Should I not drink the cup that Al-Malik Al-Rahman has prepared for me according to his will?"

The soldiers, the commander, and the officers of Al-Yahud arrested Isa and tied him.

Then they led him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the chief habr that year.

Caiaphas was the person who advised the Yahudi leaders that it was better for them that one man die as a ransom for the nation.

Simon Peter and the other hawari followed them. The chief habr knew the other hawari, so he entered the courtyard behind Isa.

Peter was standing outside the door. The other hawari whom the chief habr knew returned outside and spoke to the maid who was by the door, and she let Peter come in.

The maid at the door asked Peter, "Are you not one of the followers of that man?" He answered, "No."

Peter was warming himself along with the slaves of the chief habr and the guards. They stood around the burning coals, which they had lit since the weather was cold.

Then the chief habr interrogated Isa about his followers and his teaching.

Isa answered, "I have spoken to everyone in public, and my teaching was always in the houses of salat and the house of Allah. That is where Al-Yahud always meet. I have not hidden a word.

Why do you ask me? Ask the people who heard me. They know my words."

An officer standing next to him slapped him for his answer, and said, "Is that how you answer the chief habr?"

Isa answered, "If my answer is wrong, show me what is wrong. But if my answer is correct, why do you hit me?"

Then Ananias sent him bound to Caiaphas, the chief habr.

Simon Peter was standing with the other people who were warming themselves. They asked him, "Are you not one of the followers of that man?" Peter denied it, "No!"

One of the slaves of the chief habr, who was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the orchard with him?"

Peter denied it again, and immediately, the rooster called.

Then they led Isa from Caiaphas to the house of the Roman governor after sunrise. But the Yahudi leaders did not enter the house of the governor, so that they would not become unclean. Otherwise, they could not eat the lamb of the Eid of Pardon.

So the governor, Pilate, went out to them and asked them, "What do you accuse this man of doing?"

They answered him, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have delivered him to you."

Pilate told them, "Take him and judge him according to your law." The Yahudi leaders answered him, "We have no authority to execute anyone."

The word of Isa about how he would die was fulfilled in that way.

Pilate returned to the house of the governor and summoned Isa. He asked him, "Are you the king of Al-Yahud?"

Isa answered, "Is that your question, or did other people tell you about me?"

Pilate answered, "Am I a Yahudi? Your people and the leading ahbar have delivered you to me. What did you do?"

Isa answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were of this world, my supporters would fight for me so I would not be delivered to the Yahudi leaders. But my kingdom is not from here."

Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Isa answered, "You said it. I am a king. This is why I was born and entered this world: To give shahada to the truth. Everyone who is of the family of truth will respond to my voice."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" Then he went out to the Yahudi leaders again and told them, "I did not find any reason at all for accusing him.

You are accustomed that I release one prisoner for you at the Eid of Pardon. Do you want me to release the king of Al-Yahud for you?"

They shouted, "Not this man but Barabbas." Barabbas was a thief.