Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St John 18:2-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place; because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples.

3. Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.

4. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them: Whom seek ye?

5. They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.

6. As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went backward, and fell to the ground.

7. Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.

8. Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way.

9. That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one.

10. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus.

11. Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scabbard. The chalice which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

12. Then the band and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him: