With lighter step he returned to the place where the three disciples lay slumbering peacefully. He looked upon them and said, "Sleep now and take your rest."
Peter, hearing his voice, said, "What is it, master?"
Then all three answered, "Behold, we are ready."
Then said Jesus, "The hour is come; the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going."
Even as he spoke these words the tramp of armed men was heard in the immediate neighborhood of the garden mingled with loud cries of denunciation and vengeance.
"What is that uproar?" said the apostles.
"Come," said Philip, who hurried from behind with the rest of the eight, "Come, let us gather around the master." At that word the disciples hastened forward.
"Behold," said Jesus, "he who betrayeth me is at hand." The disciples looked in the direction which Jesus indicated, and there by the flaring light of the braziers carried by the Temple Watch, they saw Judas advancing at the head of his band.
"What does this multitude want?" said Andrew.
For an answer all the disciples cried as with one voice, "Alas! we are undone!"