Jesus Arrested^(A)

18 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley.^(B) On the other side there was a garden,^(C) and he and his disciples went into it.^(D)

² Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.^{(E) 3} So Judas came to the garden, guiding^(F) a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees.^(G) They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.

⁴ Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him,^(H) went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?”^(I)

⁵ “Jesus of Nazareth,”^(J) they replied.

“I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) ⁶ When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

⁷ Again he asked them, “Who is it you want?”^(K)

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.

⁸ Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.” ⁹ This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”^[a](L)

¹⁰ Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)

¹¹ Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup^(M) the Father has given me?”

¹² Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials^(N) arrested Jesus. They bound him ¹³ and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,^(O) the high priest that year. ¹⁴ Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.^(P)

Peter’s First Denial^(Q)

¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest,^(R) he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,^{(S) 16} but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the servant girl on duty there and brought Peter in.

¹⁷ “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter.

He replied, “I am not.”^(T)

¹⁸ It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire^(U) they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.^(V)

The High Priest Questions Jesus^(W)

¹⁹ Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

²⁰ “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues^(X) or at the temple,^(Y) where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.^{(Z) 21} Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”

²² When Jesus said this, one of the officials^(AA) nearby slapped him in the face.^(AB) “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.

²³ “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”^{(AC) 24} Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas^(AD) the high priest.

Peter’s Second and Third Denials^(AE)

²⁵ Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself.^(AF) So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?”

He denied it, saying, “I am not.”^(AG)

²⁶ One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,^(AH) challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?”^{(AI) 27} Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.^(AJ)

Jesus Before Pilate^(AK)

²⁸ Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor.^(AL) By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace,^(AM) because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.^{(AN) 29} So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

³⁰ “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

³¹ Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. ³² This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.^(AO)

³³ Pilate then went back inside the palace,^(AP) summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”^(AQ)

³⁴ “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”

³⁵ “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”

³⁶ Jesus said, “My kingdom^(AR) is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders.^(AS) But now my kingdom is from another place.”^(AT)

³⁷ “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.^(AU) Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”^(AV)

³⁸ “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.^{(AW) 39} But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”

⁴⁰ They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.^(AX)

A Call to Return to the Lord

1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius,^(A) the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah^(B) son of Berekiah,^(C) the son of Iddo:^(D)

² “The Lord was very angry^(E) with your ancestors. ³ Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Return^(F) to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’^(G) says the Lord Almighty. ⁴ Do not be like your ancestors,^(H) to whom the earlier prophets^(I) proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways^(J) and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me,^(K) declares the Lord.^{(L) 5} Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ But did not my words^(M) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?^(N)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,^(O) just as he determined to do.’”^(P)

The Man Among the Myrtle Trees

⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.^(Q)

⁸ During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red^(R) horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.^(S)

⁹ I asked, “What are these, my lord?”

The angel^(T) who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”^(U)

¹⁰ Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.”^(V)

¹¹ And they reported to the angel of the Lord^(W) who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”^(X)

¹² Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long^(Y) will you withhold mercy^(Z) from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah,^(AA) which you have been angry with these seventy^(AB) years?” ¹³ So the Lord spoke^(AC) kind and comforting words^(AD) to the angel who talked with me.^(AE)

¹⁴ Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous^(AF) for Jerusalem and Zion, ¹⁵ and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.^(AG) I was only a little angry,^(AH) but they went too far with the punishment.’^(AI)

¹⁶ “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will return^(AJ) to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line^(AK) will be stretched out over Jerusalem,’ declares the Lord Almighty.^(AL)

¹⁷ “Proclaim further: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort^(AM) Zion and choose^(AN) Jerusalem.’”^(AO)

Four Horns and Four Craftsmen

¹⁸ Then I looked up, and there before me were four horns. ¹⁹ I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?”

He answered me, “These are the horns^(AP) that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

²⁰ Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. ²¹ I asked, “What are these coming to do?”

He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise their head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns^(AQ) against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”^[a](AR)

A Man With a Measuring Line

2 ^[b]Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² I asked, “Where are you going?”

He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”^(AS)

³ While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him ⁴ and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls^(AT) because of the great number^(AU) of people and animals in it.^{(AV) 5} And I myself will be a wall^(AW) of fire^(AX) around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory^(AY) within.’^(AZ)

⁶ “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered^(BA) you to the four winds of heaven,”^(BB) declares the Lord.^(BC)

⁷ “Come, Zion! Escape,^(BD) you who live in Daughter Babylon!”^{(BE) 8} For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye^(BF)— ⁹ I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.^[c](BG) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.^(BH)

¹⁰ “Shout^(BI) and be glad, Daughter Zion.^(BJ) For I am coming,^(BK) and I will live among you,”^(BL) declares the Lord.^{(BM) 11} “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people.^(BN) I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.^{(BO) 12} The Lord will inherit^(BP) Judah^(BQ) as his portion in the holy land and will again choose^(BR) Jerusalem. ¹³ Be still^(BS) before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.^(BT)”

Clean Garments for the High Priest

3 Then he showed me Joshua^(BU) the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan^[d](BV) standing at his right side to accuse him. ² The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you,^(BW) Satan! The Lord, who has chosen^(BX) Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick^(BY) snatched from the fire?”^(BZ)

³ Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. ⁴ The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”

Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin,^(CA) and I will put fine garments^(CB) on you.”

⁵ Then I said, “Put a clean turban^(CC) on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by.

⁶ The angel of the Lord gave this charge to Joshua: ⁷ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements,^(CD) then you will govern my house^(CE) and have charge^(CF) of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.^(CG)

⁸ “‘Listen, High Priest^(CH) Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic^(CI) of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.^{(CJ) 9} See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!^(CK) There are seven eyes^[e](CL) on that one stone,^(CM) and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin^(CN) of this land in a single day.

¹⁰ “‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit^(CO) under your vine and fig tree,^(CP)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees

4 Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke^(CQ) me up, like someone awakened from sleep.^{(CR) 2} He asked me, “What do you see?”^(CS)

I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand^(CT) with a bowl at the top and seven lamps^(CU) on it, with seven channels to the lamps. ³ Also there are two olive trees^(CV) by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴ I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I replied.^(CW)

⁶ So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:^(CX) ‘Not^(CY) by might nor by power,^(CZ) but by my Spirit,’^(DA) says the Lord Almighty.

⁷ “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground.^(DB) Then he will bring out the capstone^(DC) to shouts^(DD) of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹ “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation^(DE) of this temple; his hands will also complete it.^(DF) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me^(DG) to you.

¹⁰ “Who dares despise the day^(DH) of small things,^(DI) since the seven eyes^(DJ) of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone^[f] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”^(DK)

¹¹ Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees^(DL) on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

¹² Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

¹³ He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I said.

¹⁴ So he said, “These are the two who are anointed^(DM) to^[g] serve the Lord of all the earth.”

The Flying Scroll

5 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.^(DN)

² He asked me, “What do you see?”^(DO)

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.^[h]”

³ And he said to me, “This is the curse^(DP) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief^(DQ) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely^(DR) will be banished. ⁴ The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely^(DS) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.^(DT)’”

The Woman in a Basket

⁵ Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

⁶ I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.^(DU)” And he added, “This is the iniquity^[i] of the people throughout the land.”

⁷ Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! ⁸ He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.^(DV)

⁹ Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,^(DW) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

¹⁰ “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.

¹¹ He replied, “To the country of Babylonia^[j](DX) to build a house^(DY) for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”^(DZ)

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