While Jesus was fervently praying and while his disciples were struggling
to keep awake, at the behest of the Sanhedrin, the twelfth disciple, Judas Iscariot, was leading a group of
armed men to that place where he knew that Jesus and his disciples would likely go. And so it was there
in Gethsemane that Judas kissed Jesus on the cheek, alerting the armed men who had followed him that
this was the man they were seeking. After a brief fracas in which someone lost an ear, Jesus ordered all
fighting to stop. As he voluntarily surrendered to these armed men, his own disciples panicked and fled
into the darkness for safety. Despite their protests to the contrary, they had all fallen away, just as Jesus
predicted. Jesus was now all alone. Soon, he will be standing before Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest,
accused of blasphemy. After that, he will stand before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, accused of
sedition–claiming to be king. Jesus was now just hours away from the cross when he will experience utter humiliation–he who knew no sin will be rejected by the father when the guilt of our sin is reckoned to him.

--Kim Riddlebarger