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Who arrested him?
Matthew and Mark: “A great multitude ... from the chief priests and elders of the people” ([Matt. xxvi, 47]; [Mark xiv, 43]).
Luke: “The chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders” themselves ([xxii, 47–52]).
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Who does John say was sent to arrest him?
A “band of soldiers and officers” ([xviii, 3], New Ver.).
This contradicts the Synoptics, who declare that it was a mob of civilians.