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Jesus' Non-Violence at his Arrest: The Synoptics and John's Gospel Compared

Abstract The accounts of the arrest of Jesus in the synoptic and John's Gospels (Mk 14: 43–52, Mt 26: 47–56, Lk 22: 47–53, Jn 18: 1–12) are discussed with the focus on Jesus' attitude of non-violence. It is concluded that every Gospel portrays Jesus' attitude in its own unique way. Luke's Gospel and that of John seem to emphasise Jesus' non-violent stance the most, thereby revealing a ‘mysterious resemblance’ which cannot merely be explained in terms of literary dependence. However, the attitude correlates with motifs elsewhere in the two Gospels, for instance Jesus' attitude towards the Samaritans. The paper concludes with a brief hermeneutical reflection on the relevance of Jesus' attitude for the contemporary (post)modern world.