MARK 14:46 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they laid their hands on him, and took him.”
The men seized Jesus and arrested him — the seizure is simple and immediate: they seized him and arrested him. The Son of Man who could not be arrested in the temple because of the crowds is now arrested in the garden at night by the crowd Judas has led to him. The arrest is the fulfillment of what the chief priests plotted in verse 1 — two days of scheming resolved in the garden.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:46
After that our Lord had prayed three times, and had obtained by His prayers that the fear of the Apostles should be amended by future repentance, He, being tranquil as to His Passion, goes to His persecutors, concerning the coming of whom the Evangelist says, 'And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas Iscariot, on of the twelve.'
This is not put without reason, but to the greater conviction of the traitor, since though he was of the chief company amongst the disciples, he turned himself to furious enmity against our Lord.
For he who despairs of help from God, has recourse to the power of the world.
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