“As against a thief you have come out with swords and staves to arrest me? Each day in the temple I sat teaching, and you did not lay hold on me” (Mark 14:48-9 and parallels). In the synoptic narrative this occurs at the moment of Jesus’ arrest, following his refusal to offer resistance. It is his testimony to the disparity between truth and force, which the authorities have acknowledged by not arresting him in public.
