Mark 14:48

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.