Luke 22: 49-71, Captured

Jesus has been with his disciples at night in the garden area on the Mount of Olives.

Luke 22: 47-48, Betrayed!
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

Every evening Jesus retired to a campsite on the Mount of Olives, so it was not hard for Judah to find him.  Jesus knows what Judah is doing and had earlier told his own followers that this would happen.

Luke 22: 49-50, Swords
When Jesus' followers saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with our swords?" And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

But Jesus answered, "No more of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.

Someone (Peter?) is willing to fight for Jesus.  But this is not the time.

Luke 22: 52-53, Jesus confronts the priests
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?  Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour--when darkness reigns."

Jesus continues to confront the hypocrisy and cowardice of the religious leaders. 

Luke 22: 54-62, Peter's betrayal 
Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.  A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, "This man was with him."

But he denied it. "Woman, I don't know him," he said.

A little later someone else saw him and said, "You also are one of them." 

"Man, I am not!" Peter replied.

About an hour later another asserted, "Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean."

Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" 

Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Poor arrogant Peter!  He will emerge from these painful events a very different man, both confident and humble in appropriate amounts.

This event is presumably reported to others by Peter.  Peter's accent gives him away as a Galilean and thousands have seen Peter happily at Jesus's side throughout much of Jesus's ministry.

Luke 22: 63-65, A Man abused and acquainted with sorrow, 
The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him.  They blindfolded him and demanded, "Prophesy! Who hit you?" And they said many other insulting things to him.

Abuse of a captive is common, then and now.  Since this prisoner has been accused of being a prophet, it is easy to insult him this way.

Luke 22: 66-71, "Yes, I am the Son of God"
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them. "If you are the Christ" they said, "tell us." 

Jesus answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe me, and if I asked you, you would not answer. But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."

They all asked, "Are you then the Son of God?" 

He replied, "You are right in saying I am."

Then they said, "Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips."

The priests cannot find a real crime of which to convict Jesus, so they pursue the crime of blasphemy. As in Muslim countries today, the charge of blasphemy can be used as a vague catch-all when no real crime has been committed.

When asked if he is the Messiah, Jesus incriminates himself.  "Yes, that is correct", he responds.

It is indeed blasphemy to claim that you are the Messiah!  (Unless you really are!)