Mark 14:43
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
The setting is Gethsemane on the night of the Passover, immediately after Jesus' prayer there and while He was still speaking after saying the betrayer is near. It follows His speaking with and instructing His disciples, beneath a full moon near the city of pilgrims' tents. He approached the garden in utter sadness and silence that the disciples marked but dared not question. His body showed the pressure of a terrible burden, His form swaying as if about to fall and every step taken with labored effort, He groaned aloud, and twice His companions supported Him or He would have fallen to the earth, while the disciples looked anxiously for His usual place of retirement that their Master might rest.
That night was His last agony in Gethsemane, where He had often come for meditation and prayer but came this night with a heart full of sorrow, becoming strangely silent after earnestly conversing with and instructing His disciples. Throughout His life on earth He had walked in the light of God's presence, but now He seemed shut out from God's sustaining presence. He was numbered with the transgressors, bearing the guilt of fallen humanity with the iniquity of all laid upon Him who knew no sin. Sin appeared so dreadful to Him and the weight of guilt so great that He was tempted to fear it would shut Him out forever from His Father's love, and feeling how terrible is the wrath of God against transgression His soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death.
While Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve and one of His professed disciples, arrived in Gethsemane leading a great hostile multitude and band of men and soldiers carrying swords and staves and spears, sent from the chief priests and scribes and elders to seize and arrest Him after His long agony there. The high priest was close behind Judas at the head of the hostile crowd. Judas carried out his betrayal by using a kiss as the arranged sign identifying whom the crowd should take, having arranged it because he believed Jesus might otherwise escape capture. Jesus met the betrayer calmly and with dignity, without visible signs of His recent agony. Judas's arrival with the arresting crowd began the ordeal of Jesus' suffering and death, which Jesus knew would test His disciples, and He had prepared His faithful followers for this trial so that His betrayal, condemnation, and rejection would not take them by surprise or cause their faith to depend on the fickle favor of the crowd.