SOLDIERS

They came at night to get Jesus.

Background Reading:

Luke 22:47-53

Soldiers arrive

47 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, 48 but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

49 When Jesus' followers saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with our swords?" 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

51 But Jesus answered, "No more of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him."

52 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? 53 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."

Read also Matthew 26:47-50, Mark 14:43-45, John18:1-11

More Information:

Soldier

These soldiers were from the chief priests and the temple guard.

John in his book uses the Greek word "speria" which means an army division of 600 men.

The other three gospels say a multitude or a great multitude with swords and clubs.

What could two swords the disciples had do against this large group of soldiers?