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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

John 18
² Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
³ Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, *came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
⁴ So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and *said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
⁵ They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He *said to them, "I am He." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.
⁶ So when He said to them, "I am He," they drew back and fell to the ground.
⁷ Therefore He again asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."
⁸ Jesus answered, "I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,"
⁹ to fulfill the word which He spoke, "Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one."
¹⁰ Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.
¹¹ So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?"
¹² So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,