Mark 14:46

Misinterpretations often portray Jesus as helplessly overpowered by the crowd's brute force, neglecting his sovereign choice to surrender and the miraculous healing he performed moments earlier on Malchus's ear; others erroneously depict the disciples as heroic fighters subdued only by overwhelming numbers, when in fact they fled in fear, or twist the passage to fuel antisemitism by blaming 'the Jews' collectively, ignoring the diverse composition of the mob including Roman soldiers and the roles of Judas and religious leaders.

Mark 14:46 describes the immediate arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, where the mob lays hands on him following Judas's betrayal and Peter's failed attempt at resistance, highlighting Jesus' willing submission to God's redemptive plan despite his divine power to evade capture, thus initiating the sequence of events leading to his crucifixion and fulfilling Old Testament prophecies about the suffering servant.