SECTION E

THE VOICE OF AUTHORITY SETS DIRECTION

18:1-20:30

                                                Paragraph "Hooks" are Persons told to do something

Person(s)

Ref

Direction

Direction for future

Name for Jesus

1          Defending legal rights

Judas and crowd

18:1-9

Allow them to go

[c/f legal rights]

Jesus the Nazarene /I AM

 

18:1 These things having said Jesus went forth with the disciples of him across the torrent Kedron where there was a garden, into which entered he and the disciples of him. 2 Now knew also Judas the one betraying him at the place, because often assembled Jesus there with the disciples of him. 3 Therefore Judas taking the hand and from the chief priests and from the Pharisees attending comes there with lanterns and lamps and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore knowing all the things coming

 

(Note: Literal translation of Revised Standard Version 1988)

on him went forth and says to them: Whom seek ye? 5 they answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. He tells them: I AM Now stood also Judas the one betraying him with them. 6 When therefore he told them: I am, they went away back and fell on the ground. 7 Again therefore he questioned them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus the Nazarene. 8 answered Jesus: I told you that I am: if therefore me ye seek, allow these to go: 9 that might be fulfilled the word which he said, Those whom thou hast given to me. I lost not of them no one.

2.         Using non-violence

 

Peter

18:10-12

Put sword into sheath

[c/f non-violence]

I am

 

18:10 Simon therefore Peter having a sword drew it and smote the of the high priest slave and cut off of him the ear right; and was same to the slave Malchus. 11 Said therefore Jesus to Peter:

Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which has given to me the Father, by no means shall I drink it? 12 Therefore the band and the chillarch and the attendants of the Jews took Jesus and bound him.