And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” And the high priest tore his garments and said, “What further witnesses do we need? You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death. And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him with blows.

At last, when the High Priest requires him to speak, Yeshu answers, ‘You are right. I am God’s Son. And you will see me received by God, and enthroned, and coming to judge the world.’

Then the High Priest showed dramatically how well he knew that these were the words of two sutras about God’s Messiah Son.

The trial was over. He Yeshu, a man, by openly claiming Son-ship, had committed the worst possible crime in the hostile minds of the Council members. They need show no mercy now.

And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire. Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying, “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.'” Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.

Back in Jerusalem an emergency night-time meeting of the Council of the Great Temple was called. Now they could do what they wanted to do.

However in order to pretend that they were carrying out justice, they tried to find bad things that Yeshu had said or done. But it was not possible to find any.

And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him. And they laid hands on him and seized him. But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me. Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled,” And they all left him and fled.               And a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

The things that happened that night were seen, heard and personally experienced by a well-known slave, by an unnamed teen-age lad and by a certain known but unnamed swordsman, who then ran away.. They all had good reason to remember, and it is their vivid memories that have been heard, and with the guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit have been received and are here written down.