"What! Couldn't you stay with me for one short hour? Stay awake and pray. Pray for yourselves. You are going to need strength. You are not so strong as you want to be."
He left them again, and once more he fell on his knees and prayed,
"O my Father, if I must suffer these things, thy will be done."
When he returned, the disciples again were sleeping. They were too tired to stay awake.
A third time he went apart from them and prayed. He prayed in the same words he had used before. And suddenly he began to feel stronger. He rose from his knees at last, and came back to the disciples. His voice broke in upon their sleep: "Are you still sleeping? Well, you've slept long enough! My time is up. I am going to be turned over to sinners now! Get up! Look, the traitor is coming!"
While he was still speaking, a crowd of soldiers carrying swords and clubs burst into the grove. Judas Iscariot was leading them. Judas ran to Jesus and kissed him, saying,
"Hail, Master!"
Jesus answered, "Well, friend—what have you come to do?"
Then a band of men laid their hands on Jesus, and held him so that he could not escape.