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- Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered.
- He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
- It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."
- The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords." "That is enough," he replied.
- Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.
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- On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."
- He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,
- "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
- An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
- And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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- When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
- "Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."
- While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him,
- but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"
- When Jesus' followers saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with our swords?"
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- And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
- But Jesus answered, "No more of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.
- Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?
- Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour--when darkness reigns."
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