23 Bible Verses about Arresting Christ

When his relations heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

Yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a Prophet.

After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they let him alone, and went away.

After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

The Chief Priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if any one learned where Jesus was, he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.

The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the Chief Priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

And plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death;

It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the Unleavened bread. The Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death;

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. "The man whom I kiss," he had said, "will be the one; arrest him."

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. "The man whom I kiss," he had said, "will be the one; arrest him and take him away safely."

Jesus at the same time said to the crowds: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me? I have sat teaching day after day in the Temple Courts, and yet you did not arrest me."

But Jesus interposed, and said to the men: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me?

I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the Scriptures."

"Brothers," he said, "it was necessary that the prediction of Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men that arrested Jesus,

On which Jesus said to him: "Friend, do what you have come for." Thereupon the men went up, seized Jesus, and arrested him.

Then the men seized Jesus, and arrested him.

Those who had taken Jesus prisoner took him away into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance.

So the soldiers of the garrison, with their Commanding Officer and the Jewish police, arrested Jesus and bound him,

"I have already told you that I am he," replied Jesus, "so, if it is for me that you are looking, let these men go."