INTRODUCTION.
Little did the psalmist know that he was prophesying a moment in the last hours of Jesus’ life when he said “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me” (see Psalms 41:9). Centuries later, on the night before He was betrayed, Jesus repeated this passage as a Scripture that had to be fulfilled concerning Judas and his betrayal of our LORD (see John 13:18). Judas’ betrayal of Jesus would lead to the LORD’s arrest, His trial, and His crucifixion. When the opportune time arrived, Judas led the Jewish authorities to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. This week’s lesson focuses on what took place when Jesus was arrested and taken into custody.