54. But this thing must happen this way so that it will be as the Scriptures say.”
55. Then Jesus said to the crowd, “You came to get me with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal. Every day I sat in the Temple teaching. You did not arrest me there.
56. But all these things have happened so that it will be as the prophets wrote.” Then all of Jesus’ followers left him and ran away.
57. Those men who arrested Jesus led him to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. The teachers of the law and the Jewish elders were gathered there.
58. Peter followed Jesus but did not go near him. He followed Jesus to the courtyard of the high priest’s house. He sat down with the guards to see what would happen to Jesus.
59. The leading priests and the Jewish council tried to find something false against Jesus so that they could kill him.