 Good morning. If we could have any one person who's online pray with us, we have a Lia online. Lia, could you open with a word of prayer and then we will begin our class. Lia, okay, maybe Lia has not logged in. Then in that case, okay, Jefina, if you could please do that for us. No. Okay, very sorry, but Pastor John Paul, if you could pray for us. Jefina, we want to thank you for this time. Thank you for bringing us together in your presence. Always ask for your presence to lead us as we are going to continue to learn from your word. Speak to us, Lord, help us to understand your word. Help us to pay attention and also to remember the things that you are teaching us today. God, we praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So last week, we focused on the teachings of Jesus. The final instructions are the most probably important things that he regarded and would be useful for the disciples in the coming days after his resurrection. So these are the things which he imparts to them. So we looked at chapters 14, 15, 16 last week. So now we are kind of moving into the ending, the final chapters of this gospel. Today, we will look at chapters 17 to 19 because this is basically where we see the intercessory prayer of Jesus and then his arrest and crucifixion. So these would be the passages that we will be covering today. Let's get started with a few thoughts on the intercessory prayer that Jesus does for us. Because if you see this passage, in this passage, he does not only pray for his disciples and the followers who were there with him at that time. He also prays for all believers, even the ones who would come in the future, who would be part of his flock. So let's look at the prayer that he prays for us. It begins with an interesting statement and then it moves into the other prayer points that Jesus wanted to bring before the Father. So if we could have someone read out for us, John chapter 17 and verses 1, 2 and 3, please go ahead. John 17, 1 to 3. He spoke these words, lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father the hour has come, glorify your son, that your son also may glorify you. As you have given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. And this is eternal life that they may know you. They only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent, have glorified you on. So in verse 1, Jesus begins by saying, the hour has come. Up to now on many occasions in the Gospel of John, we see that the hour has not yet come. And so on many occasions Jesus escapes from the crowds which wish to harm him, which wish to stone him because the hour had not come. And but here finally we see that the hour has indeed come. So obviously the hour is referring to the time of crucifixion when he will finally accomplish the purpose for which he has come to this earth. So he says now that the hour has come, glorify your son is the prayer with which Jesus begins. And then he goes on to say, why am I asking the father to glorify me so that the son may glorify the father in return. So this actually is not a selfish prayer of self-promotion. Rather this is a prayer in which the son is saying, father glorify me because my purpose is this to glorify you in turn. And this reveals to us the heart of Jesus, the heart which he always had to honour the father, to obey the father, to submit to the father as and when required. So in all things we see a selflessness in all of his actions. And now even in his prayer we see the same thing reflected where the focus is not on himself, the focus is more on pleasing the father, fulfilling the father's will. Now when we go to the Lord in prayer like Jesus taught us, he taught us to pray for our needs. He said we must ask the father and say give us today our daily bread. So we do pray for our needs but the attitude with which we approach him, that is expressed in the first portion of the prayer which Jesus taught us, where we are saying, let your father come and let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So in those wordings the attitude with which we need to come to the Lord in prayer is reflected. So we do come to him and ask for our needs but we ask in line with his will so that his will is done in our lives, in our homes, in the same way that it is done in heaven. So even here Jesus is practising what he has taught the disciples. So when he is praying, he places the father first and he says, yes in this hour which has finally come I need to be glorified, I need to defeat sin and death but I am doing all of this so that your purposes may be glorified. And so I am not saying that we should not be free and open with the Lord when we go to him in prayer. He wants us to be completely frank, completely open with him because this is our heavenly Father that we are going to. But even as we kneel down in prayer in his presence, it's just him and us, there's nobody else listening. We are not praying in public to be heard. This is just between us and him. At that time when we are presenting our requests, maybe it would be good for us to just take a look at our prayer. How do we pray? What are our priorities when we pray? Are they all prayer points which are about our needs and us wanting to be promoted in different areas of life? Us gaining things which we require for our everyday life. So is it all that or something in our prayers does it also reflect a love for God, a desire to fulfill his purposes, to see him honored and glorified? So I am not saying that when we pray we should condemn ourselves and look at ourselves and look down on what we are praying. But just maybe, just to know our heart, maybe the next time when we go to the Lord in prayer, just take a look at our prayer list and then ask ourselves what kind of a list is this? What priorities is it reflecting? Because when we are praying it shows what is there in the most being. In Jesus' case when he was praying what is there at the core of his being to honor the Father? When we are praying what is at the core of our very being? What are our deepest ambitions and desires? Is it only for self promotion or to have our needs met? Or is also there a desire there to honor God, to let his will be done in our lives, to see him being glorified in our homes, in our families. So just to take a few minutes to reflect on our prayer would help us just to kind of get an idea of what actually lies at the core of our being. What are our deepest desires? So here we see that Jesus was focused on glorifying the Father. So maybe we should imitate him in our own prayer life, where we begin by honoring the Father, where we desire that his name should be hallowed, where we would genuinely like to see his will being done not just in heaven but even in our homes and in our decisions and in our everyday walk. And then we move into the other requests because once we have our priorities right, it really doesn't matter what we are going to be asking for with regard to our needs because we will ask with the right attitude. The right attitude has already been established. We have decided that he should be hallowed. We have decided that his will should be done. So all the prayer needs that we are now going to be placing before him, it's going to flow out of that attitude of reverence for our Lord and Saviour. So this kind of helps us to show the attitude with which we should approach the Lord in prayer. Now the next two verses reveal something very interesting about eternal life. Here Jesus says, you have granted me the authority over all people to grant eternal life to those who come to the Father. And then in verse 3, this is what Jesus says about eternal life. He's giving a definition here about eternal life. And this is what he says, now this is eternal life, that they know you. And when he says that they know you is referring to the Rayoon God, that they should know God the Father. They should also know Jesus Christ. So he says eternal life is this. Eternal life is not a ticket to heaven. Eternal life is not to gain access to all the Abrahamic blessings. All that is part of our eternal life. But eternal life as such is actually knowing God, knowing Jesus Christ. Because what happens is, you know, some people, they get the wrong idea about what the Salvation Prayer is all about. They think that they are saying the Salvation Prayer so that they can now gain access to the blessings. They can gain access to this free ticket to heaven. They can gain access to all the privileges which come along, all the perks that come along with being a follower of Jesus. But no, that's not what the Salvation Prayer is about. The Salvation Prayer is basically where you're coming and saying, I have now discovered you. I didn't know that there was someone like you, but now, oh, you know, eternal God, now I know who you are. Now I know what you've done for me, and I want to know you. So that actually is eternal life where God is not just a means to an end. Where you're approaching God to acquire many other good things which you're hoping to have. No, that is not Salvation. Salvation is just knowing him and having a relationship with him. Now, this in fact was a revelation for me when I first learned it because for most of my Christian life, I had always been kind of focused on John 1010 and I misunderstood John 1010. You know, we all are very familiar with John 1010. That's basically the worst where it says the thief, the evil one comes only to steal and kill and destroy. And of course, Jesus, when he was referring to the thief, he was also talking about the Pharisees who were false leaders, false shepherds. So he says, you people only want to, you know, shepherd the flock so that you can steal and kill and destroy them. But I have come. So he says, I am the true shepherd. And he says, I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. So for me, Salvation always meant that, oh, okay, in Christ, I'm going to have an abundant life. It never occurred to me that I was treating God as the means to an end. The end being me getting the blessings, me having that abundant life, me having that peace and joy, which I know I can enjoy in him. It never occurred to me that I'm making God the means to an end, that he himself is not the end itself. It never occurred to me that I was doing that for many years. And when it first came to my mind that my attitude was wrong about Salvation, about eternal life, it was quite a shock. I realized that I was treating God in the same way the world treats Santa Claus. Because you see, nobody really cares about that plump man in a red suit with that funny looking white beard. Nobody goes to him for himself. Nobody cares about him. They go to him for the gifts that he's going to be bearing. So he's just the means to an end. But this God of Gods is no Santa. He is the gift. He is the prize. He is what eternal life and salvation are all about. And so this is such an important statement. Maybe we should include this when we are sharing the Gospel message so that people don't come to Jesus just for blessings. And they just think that Jesus is some kind of a Santa Claus. Maybe we should teach them that this is eternal life, that we get to know God, that we get to know Jesus Christ, whom he has sent because then our focus is correct. And we start off our Christian walk knowing that we are beginning a relationship with him. He is not someone that we are cultivating a relationship with just to get things out of him. No, he himself is the end towards which we are moving. And so we have entered into this relationship with him to know him. And on a day-to-day basis, we will choose to sanctify ourselves because we value this relationship. We want to hold on to him. We do not want to lose him. So it becomes a walk of sanctification where every day we start setting ourselves apart more and more so that we can have a greater and greater intimacy with this Jesus with whom we have entered into a relationship. So it kind of helps us to get our priorities right when we understand this important concept. Now, moving on to some other things, maybe if we could have someone read out for us, John chapter 17 verses 11, maybe just 11 and 12. Yeah, if someone could read out for us, John 17, 11 and 12 please. If all of you could have your Bibles with you when you come for the class and if you could open your Bibles to the passages that we are covering, that would make it easy for you to just quickly unmute and read the verses that I'm requesting. So John chapter 17, if someone could read out for us verses 11 and 12 please. Anybody online who can read out John 17, 11 and 12? John 17, 11 and 12. When now I'm no longer in the world, but these are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father keep through your name those whom you have given me and that they may be one as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me I have kept and none of them is lost except the son of Padishon that the scripture might be fulfilled. Yes, thank you. So here the first prayer request that Jesus is placing before the Father is that the Father would keep these disciples who have come to the Lord and who have accepted the son whom he has sent. So Jesus says the first prayer request is this Father protect them, keep them how by the power of your name is what it says in verse 11. So we are today being kept by the power of the name of Jesus. On our own we would not be able to stay in this relationship with the almighty one. You know this eternal life that we have entered into of knowing him, having a relationship with him. We would never be able to succeed in this relationship because he is divine. He is perfect. He is holy. We on the other hand are still work in progress. There are still so many things defects that need to be overcome, that need to be straightened out. So it would never be possible for us to have a relationship with this almighty one if it were not for this power of the name of Jesus that is keeping us in him. So basically the reason that we are all able to continue in our walk with the Lord is only because of the power of the name of Jesus. He is the one who keeps us. So the prayer which Jesus prayed that day before the father for his disciples and for all the followers who would come in the future generations, that prayer is being answered even today. You and I are benefiting from that intercessory prayer which Jesus prayed on that day because that day he did not pray just for the immediate followers of that time. He also included us in that prayer. And so we are all being kept by the power of the name of Jesus. And Jude 1.24 says something very lovely regarding this. So if someone could turn in their Bibles to the end of the Bible to Jude which has only one chapter. So Jude 1.24 if someone could read out verse 24. Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. Yes, it's talking about Jesus here who is going to present us before the father with exceeding joy because he is able to keep us from stumbling. The power in the name of Jesus will help us. It will enable us. It will equip us to stay in him and not to backslide and go away back into the world. So he will enable us and help us to keep from stumbling so that one day we will be presented before the father without fault is what it says over here. So this verse has been of great comfort to me in my Christian walk because there are times when I fall spiritually when I fall, when I have sinned against the Lord and I feel so deeply ashamed and I say I should have known better after all these years of having taught the Bible, of having known him. How could I have been so foolish and so selfish just to commit that sinful deed and when I'm feeling really bad, I'm reminded of this verse and I say, no, no, because Satan comes to you and says at such points of time, he says, see, you will never change. You will always be like this. You will always be the one who will disappoint the Lord. And so when those thoughts come into the mind, then the scripture helps me because I tell myself, no, I have a God and Savior who is able to keep me from stumbling. Yes, it is true that right now I have fallen, but I am repenting and I am ashamed of what I have done and now the Lord will help me so that I will not go back to the foolish wrong decision that I took and next time, if the same temptation comes my way, I will be able to succeed. Why? Because the power of the name of Jesus is able to keep me from stumbling. Even as I look to him and depend upon him, he will enable me to live in victory and one day I too will be presented before the Father without fault, without blemish and that's such an assurance for us believers to have. So what Satan tries to do is he tries to discourage us and make us think that we are one hopeless case. We, maybe all the others will succeed, but we, I in particular will never make it. That's what Satan comes to us and says when we have fallen. He makes us feel guilty, he makes us feel ashamed and he makes us feel that we will never be able to overcome certain areas in life where we tend to always stumble. So the promise is this, the truth is this, that we have a Savior who is indeed able to keep us from stumbling. So rather than listen to the lies of the evil one, rather than listen to the discouraging false things that Satan is telling us, we need to rely on scriptures like this, like Jude 1.24, like this John 17 verse 11 where we are told that the Lord can keep us. In fact, when verse 12, John 17 verse 12, Jesus says, none has been lost except the one doomed to destruction. So Judas made his decision right in the beginning. He was there basically for the money that he could steal. He never really wanted to be part of a follower of Jesus, but all the others who came to Jesus because they were so joyful to have discovered the Messiah, they all came for Jesus' sake, for the sake of the Messiah and so he kept them safe. Jesus says, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me and now I am going out of this world and so you, O Lord, you the Father, continue to keep them through the name which you have given me is what Jesus says. So the first request that Jesus places before the Father is that we should be kept safe. We should be protected that one day we will be presented before the Father without fault. The second request which Jesus places before the Father is that we should be sanctified on a daily basis. Now that would be verses 17 to 19. Maybe we can read up to verse 21. If someone could read out for us chapter 17 verses 17 to 21 please. Just sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into this world, I also have sent them into the world and for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified by the truth. I do not pray for these alone but also for those who will believe in me through their word that they all may be one as you, those who are in me and I in you that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that you sent me. Yeah, in these verses we see certain very specific facts mentioned regarding sanctification. First we get to know that sanctification happens through the word. The word corrects us. The word of God teaches us how we should be ourselves in what way we should walk on a daily basis. The choices we should make. It's the word of God which instructs us regarding these truths on how life should be lived. So even as we choose to walk in those truths we start getting more and more sanctified, more and more set apart. We start becoming more like him. Our walk is with him rather than with the world. So we are getting set apart. We're getting more to be with him in a relationship with him rather than being in a relationship with the world. So that's a process which happens through this word of truth which teaches us how to walk and it also enables us to walk. The second thing that we get to know about sanctification is that the sanctification is being done so that we can go out into the world and serve the purposes of God. So all of us as believers want to serve the Lord in some way but when we are not getting sanctified on a daily basis the service that we are offering the Lord tends to be very corrupted and stained with selfish motives, with sin and it's not really what the kind of fruit that the Lord wants us to bear. So sanctification is very important. The way we serve is influenced by to what extent we are sanctified. So a person who is allowing themselves to be sanctified by the word on a daily basis, they will be able to offer a service that is pure, something that will be a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Even as all of us are sitting over here attending this class, you are attending this class as students and this is the service that you are offering to the Lord. You have chosen to sit over here in this class to learn from the word, to equip yourselves. So if you are sitting over here with a sanctified heart on a daily basis, not just hearing the truth but also practicing it, also living it out in your choices, then that service that you are offering to the Lord as a student is a sanctified and pure service. In the same way me, the teacher, if I am just teaching over here as a teaching exercise but I am not really experiencing sanctification on a daily basis, however nice my teaching may sound, it's unclean in the Lord's eyes if there is no sanctification going on in my life. So what I offer to the Lord will be pure only if sanctification is happening inside of me, inside of us, whether we are students or whether we are the teacher, what are we offering to the Lord? Is this a sanctified service that is being offered or is it just something that's coming out of our own self-centeredness, out of our sinfulness? So sanctification does matter. It either leads to a pure and holy service unto the Lord or it leads to a service that we are offering God which is corrupted, which is not good enough. So Jesus says in verse 19, the reason I sanctified myself to the extent of going to the cross, I did that so that day too may be truly sanctified. So now in Jesus by His power, by the finished work of the cross, we too can lead sanctified lives. So Jesus says to the Father, keep them, protect them, but not let the evil one deceive them into thinking that oh, they will never make it and also keep them from harm and danger. So He's asking for that and second He says, Lord, continue to sanctify them so that they can really enjoy this eternal life to know you, draw closer to you, have a more and more intimate relationship with you and out of that their service will flow out and it will be a pure and holy service unto you and that will be like a pleasing aroma unto the Lord. So part of that sanctification, the last fact that we see regarding sanctification is unity. So He says, may they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me before that He says that all of them may be one Father just as you are in me and I am in you. So we would have to overcome our different cultural backgrounds, our different perspectives and world views and in spite of all our differences we should be willing to be united because sometimes, that's basically why we ended up with so many denominations because one group of believers feel that they are superior to another group of believers and that leads to division. On the other hand, in spite of us having different perspectives in spite of us having different cultural backgrounds we should have that unity in the spirit which is what Jesus wanted which is what Jesus prayed for so there will always be differences because we are believers from all over the world we are going to have different world views, different perspectives but in spite of those differences are we willing to come together and be united in spirit because sanctification includes even that the more we are set apart the more it is easier for us to unite with others but the more selfish we are the less we have become sanctified we find it difficult to lay aside those things our own perspectives and choose to love others even though they hold a different perspective so all of these things matter and so Jesus asked the Lord that we would be sanctified in this manner just another one point even as he prays for those who will come in the future ages because in verse 22 the Lord says I have given them the glory that you gave me that they may be one as we are and then he goes on to talk about okay verse 21 onwards he starts praying for all the believers who will come even in the future and then in verse 22 this is what he says he says I have given them the glory that you gave me that they may be one as we are one so the Lord has imparted his glory to us in the sense all of us are going to be confirmed into the image of the sun nobody is going to be more in the image of the sun than somebody else when we all get to heaven we all are equally going to be confirmed to the image of the sun so it's not like any one person is going to be less glorified less in the image of the sun and some people are going to be more glorified more in the image of the sun rewards will differ because that will depend on the sacrifices we made for the Lord on the earth the sincere hard work that we put in the priorities that we had the motives that we had even as we served him reward will depend on that so rewards will differ but when it comes to our status who we are all of us would be equally glorified in the sense all of us are equally in the image of the sun glory doesn't depend on reward reward is a separating glorification is a separating glorification is us being made into the image of the sun sinful human beings who are worth nothing are now going to literally be made into the image of the sun to be like him I mean that's like a that's the ultimate glorification that a person could receive so rewards is a separate matter that's a different thing that is not glorification glorification is us being made into the image of the sun and this is the assurance that we are given that all of us will be are being given the same glory and so we don't have to be jealous of one another we all are equally valuable all of us have been equally chosen and appointed to go forth and bear fruit fruit that will have eternal results so we don't need to be jealous of one another we all have equally received his glory so therefore we should be one even as the father and son are one we too should be united in the same sense so here we see that there is really no need for any jealousy or competitiveness because we have all been given the same privilege equal privilege has been given to all of us so yes those are just some of the main thoughts that we could draw from the intercessory prayer of Jesus let's move quickly into John chapter 18 so in John chapter 18 the focus is mainly on the arrest of Jesus and he's tried in front of some of the Jewish leaders so these details are given in John chapter 18 and then John chapter 19 we will be dealing with his death and crucifixion so John chapter 18 let's look at the arrest which takes place so if we could have someone read out for us the first six verses we will look at a few details so we have moved into John chapter 18 if someone can read out for us the first six verses please when Jesus had spoken his words he went back to this inside where there was a garden which he acted inside the center and Judas betrayed him also needed this but Jesus often went there to this inside this then Judas having received an attachment of troops and officers who received police invasions came there with the ambulance towards the entrance and they were all involved in this that would come upon them then forward and said to them don't buy your seat they answered Jesus of Nazareth Jesus said to them I am here and Judas will be taken also should be with them and now when he said to them I am here they drew back the church um yeah so here in this passage we see that the people who have come to arrest Jesus are carrying torches lanterns and weapons so we realize that this is taking place in the night time which means that these people are that these people have come here to make the arrest or believe that they are doing something crooked they are not willing to do this boldly in the light of day they feel that they need to cover this thing which they are doing because they realize that what they are doing is not right not just not correct and so the very time of night which we know which they choose to do this deed shows that they are aware that what they are doing is wrong they are not doing this in their innocence no they very well know that what they are doing is crooked and they know that if the public could see what they are doing the public would not approve of it and so they are now doing it in a concealed manner so which is basically why Judas is being paid because Judas will know the movements of um Judas will know the movements of Jesus they probably would have told him let us know when he is going to be in some place away from the crowd all by himself and not with many people around him to defend him because at that time it will be easy for us to capture him so they probably would have asked him to you know let them know so now Judas comes to the garden because he knows that right now Jesus is just going to be there with the disciples no one else is going to be around public is not going to be watching so Judas the betrayer comes over there with a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests so we realize from this that these soldiers belong to the chief priests and the Pharisees so this is basically referring to the temple guard you know the temple always had a a set of a team of troops which would take turns in guarding the temple because the temple was inlaid with gold so right from Solomon's time there was always a temple guard the temple had to be guarded so the different gates leading into the temple area would always have soldiers posted over there so right from that time you had a detachment of soldiers who would be looking after the temple taking turns so some of those soldiers are being used over here to make this particular arrest and they have come along with weapons because not only have they brought torches and lanterns but it says over there in verse 3 that they have also brought weapons and when they come over there they are coming with Judas so they obviously know that they have come to the right place they have come to Jesus so Jesus rather mockingly he says who is it you want he knows very well why they have come what they have come for he also knows why Judas has brought them so it's more of a kind of mocking statement where he says who is it you want and they say Jesus of Nazareth and then in our English translation they add the word he but he literally just says I am and then we see what happens over here because John records that very specifically when Jesus claims who he is and declares that he is the I am they draw back and fall to the ground I mean they literally fall down on the ground because he is expressing his divinity and they can't stand in front of who he is so this actually very clearly emphasises the fact that it was not a helpless Jesus who got trapped in a corner and then got taken away no this is the I am standing there in all of his authority and power and volunteering to be arrested this is not a helpless Jesus who got caught up in a conspiracy so it is so important to recognise this the people who have come with their weapons to arrest him and the chief priests and the Pharisees who have come to supervise the whole thing they all fall down to the ground they can't stand in front of the divine I am and then they get up wipe themselves and then they go ahead and make the arrest because the I am is allowing himself to be arrested so we see the almighty God in all of his power in all of his majesty choosing to humble himself and do this for sinful mankind I mean amazing such ultimate divine power combined with such deep compassion and such amazing humility I mean that is the kind of God that we are trying to imitate so sanctification is something that we will never be able to do on our own we go to him and say lord it is only going to take place if you will enable me because this is the kind of God that we are trying to become like so we are trying to become more and more set apart so that we are more like him rather than like the world so here he declares who he is that he is the I am and they cannot even withstand it they fall to the ground and then they get up and make their arrest so we see this fact so then in verse 8 yeah maybe we can have we can read out verses 8 to 11 yeah we still have 5 minutes so yeah if someone could read out for us verses 8 to 11 please so therefore we see the same which is those then so so so so so Jesus said to be so so yeah thank you so what had Peter said earlier lord I am willing to lay down my life for you and the man is actually willing to you know show an action that he meant it so he is now getting ready to lay down his life because he is no trained warrior but still he has a sword with him you know they probably use this because they travel from place to place out in the wilderness and you know at that time they don't have anything they need to protect themselves against robbers against gangsters so in those days people always had a short dagger or a sword or something you know when they are travelling so Peter had a sword because the you know Peter and the disciples and Jesus would travel from village to village on foot and so out in the wilderness if there is any danger they should be able to protect themselves so that is the reason why this Peter has a sword with him right now so he draws his sword and he cuts off the high priest's servants right here so this is him you know acting on the promise he made getting ready to lay down his life for his master but Jesus has come into the world with a very different purpose and so earlier in the prayer he had said I have not lost even one of the ones whom you have given me except of course the you know the son of perdition who had already made his choice so now the same thing is repeated over here in verse 9 where it says so in verse 8 Jesus says let these men go you know you have come to arrest me go ahead arrest me but allow these others to go and John records and says Jesus said these words so that what has spoken would be fulfilled I have not lost one of those you gave me so Jesus does not want any of them to be accidentally wounded or killed in the altercation which will follow you know if they resort to violence and so Jesus commands Peter and says put your sword away this cup which the father is giving me I will drink of it now this would not have made sense to Peter Jesus has been telling them over the last few weeks that yes he is going to be you know leaving so um Jesus has been telling them about this but they have not quite caught what Jesus is saying and so now Peter and the other disciples must have been very puzzled they were willing to go into fight mode to fight for their master to somehow you know protect him help him but the master is saying I want to drink from this cup so no no violence I am willing to go I am willing to go with the and they do not understand this and so at this point in their shock in their bewilderment they all run away except of course we see two disciples who are not able to run away so they kind of stealthily follow at a distance behind him to see what is going to happen next where they are going to take him um we see over here that Jesus um is so protective towards his disciples and he says let these men go you have come for me you arrest me but do not harm them in any way alright so let's hold on to that thought and then we will go for a break um so when we come back we will continue from verse 12 onwards thank you