JESUS WAS BETRAYED!

Jesus had spent three years with His disciples, 
teaching, training and being a father to them but  
then He was betrayed by one of the twelve men 
who were closest to Him. 
“Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me…He 
who dipped his hand with Me in the dish will betray 
Me…Then Judas…said, ‘Is it I?’ He said to him, ‘You 
have said it.’” Matthew 26:21-25 
His disciples deserted Him and left Him to suffer 
alone. This was written in the Scriptures long 
before it happened. But He left them with hope 
that He would not remain dead!
“All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this 
night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the 
sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have been 
raised, I will go before you to Galilee.” Matthew 26:31-32 
Even Peter, one of the closest three men to 
Jesus, was told by Jesus that he would deny Him 
three times on this same night. 
“Peter answered and said to Him, ‘Even if all are made to 
stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble.’ 
Jesus said to Him, ‘Assuredly I say to you that this night,  
before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.’” 
Matthew 26:33-34 
This was fulfilled later that night and when Peter 
realised what he had done he wept bitterly. 
When asked if he knew Jesus, Peter responded: 
1. ‘Woman, I do not know Him.’” Luke 22:57 
2. “And after a little while another saw him and said, 
‘You also are of them.’ But Peter said, ‘Man, I am 
not!’” Luke 22:58 
3. “Then after about an hour had passed another 
confidently affirmed, saying, ‘Surely this fellow also 
was with Him, for he is a Galilean.’ But Peter said, 
‘Man, I do not know what you are saying!’  
Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster 
crowed.” Luke 22:59-60 
“And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter 
remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to 
him, ‘Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three 
times.’ So Peter went out and wept bitterly.”  
Luke 22:61-62
JESUS CHOSE TO DIE TO FOLLOW GOD’S 
PLAN. HE DID NOT HAVE TO, HE DID IT 
FOR YOU! 
Jesus was troubled about fulfilling God’s 
purpose in dying for the world, but He chose to 
anyway. God responded to His prayer with a 
voice from heaven saying that God would be 
glorified [revealed] by His death! 
“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, 
save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to 
this hour. Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came 
from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and I will 
glorify it again.” John 12:27-28 
On the night before Jesus was killed He prayed 
and surrendered Himself to go through with 
God’s plan. There was no other way to save 
mankind! 
“Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; 
nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42 
God, as a man, humbled Himself to die on the 
Cross! He did not have to die, He chose to. 
“And being found in appearance as a Man, He humbled 
Himself and became obedient to death, even the death of 
the Cross.” Philippians 2:8 
WHEN IT CAME TIME TO ARREST JESUS 
THEY NEEDED A SIGN TO TELL HIM 
APART FROM HIS DISCIPLES. HE WAS 
NOT SOMEONE SPECIAL TO LOOK AT! HE 
WAS A NORMAL LOOKING MAN!