⁴ After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.^(A)

³³ But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”^(A)

¹² “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

²⁸ They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.^(A)

³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”^(A)

Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now,^(B) but you will follow later.”^(C)

³⁷ Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

³⁸ Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!^(D)

³ They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail^(A) until the next day.

¹⁸ Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”

⁶⁴ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body^(A) and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

⁶⁵ “Take a guard,”^(B) Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” ⁶⁶ So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal^(C) on the stone^(D) and posting the guard.^(E)

⁵ “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot^(A) among the people.”