Jesus, the only truly innocent person who ever lived, was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, handed over by a trusted disciple, and brought before a council that had already decided His fate before the trial began....
Today's scripture, reading from Matthew 26, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the 12, and with them a great crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betray...