From the LORD comes deliverance.May Your blessing be on Your people.

Psalm 3:8

The Betrayal of Jesus: Who Set up Who?

John 18:1-11

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In the Kidron Valley….

Good King Asa destroyed idolatrous images here. I Kings 15:13

Good King Josiah destroyed idolatrous images here as well. II Kings 23:4-6

After he had been betrayed by his son, Absalom, David and his loyal family and friends, crossed the Kidron Valley. II Samuel 15:23

"They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet."

Matt. 21:46

Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and

each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives...

- Luke 21:37

Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.

- Luke 22:39

I am I am…the bread of life. (6:35) I am…the light of the world (8:12) I am…the door. (10:9) I am…the good shepherd. (10:11) I am…the resurrection and the life. (11:25) I am…the way, the truth, and the life. (14:6) I am…the true vine. (15:1)

I AMTo the Samaritan woman… "I AM, the one who speaks to you”.

- John 4:26

To the disciples in the storm… "I AM. Do not be afraid.” - John 6:20

"I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM.”

- John 13:19

“I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!” - John 8:58

“The Parable of the disciples in trouble” John 6:39 John 17:12 John 18:9

Judas’ kiss of betrayal

“Cup”"My cup overflows…” - Psalm 23:5

Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath…. - Isaiah 51:17

The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.

- Revelation 16:19

The Betrayal of Jesus:Who Set up Who?

Christ was in control all along

Where? In the gardenWho? Judas IscariotWhat? Roman soldiers and the temple policeHow? In Christ's good pleasureWhy? By the Father's will for our salvation

If God isfor us,who canbe against us?- Romans 8:31