Matthew 26:55

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

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.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

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.

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

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

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

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.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

When evening came, he went out of the city.

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

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

When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

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

They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

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.

He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

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?

They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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.”

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

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.

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

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.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

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?”

Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize 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.

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

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.