{"id":144340,"date":"2026-04-02T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144340"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:45:16","slug":"then-they-came-up-and-laid-hands-on-jesus-and-seized-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144340","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.<sup> <\/sup>Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, \u201cThe one I shall kiss is the man; seize him.\u201d\u00a0And he came up to Jesus at once and said, \u201cHail, Master!\u201d\u00a0And he kissed him.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus said to him, \u201cFriend, why are you here?\u201d\u00a0Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Matthew 26:47-50<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Taking of Christ (1602), by Caravaggio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CqWMsU5zp9\">pic.twitter.com\/CqWMsU5zp9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Art Curator (@SeekAfterBeauty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeekAfterBeauty\/status\/2039866224016806119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144340\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144341,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144340\/revisions\/144341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}