Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane in the dark hours before dawn.  Roman soldiers and the religious temple guard came along with the chief priests and elders.  These men came with torches, swords and clubs as if Jesus were a common robber. 
(Luke 22:52; John 18:3)

  Jesus questioned those arresting Him that they would treat Him as a thief…when in reality they should have been treating Him as their God and their King!

  Jesus then stated a fact that gives sorrow to those who follow Him:
(NASB) Luke 22:53 “While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours.”

  “…this hour and the power of darkness are yours.”  Jesus’ time had come for which He had been sent into the world. 
  All through Jesus’ ministry He had said, ‘My time is not yet come.’  Now His time had come. 
(NASB) John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

  When Jesus’ hour came, it was not as people thought it would come for Messiah to proclaim Himself!  He came not as King over all kings that first time.  He came as the Suffering Servant described by Isaiah chapter 53.  Have you read this chapter recently?

  Jesus came to have the ultimate victory over your sins and mine.  He came to conquer death (and He did when He was physically resurrected from the tomb).  He came to overcome Satan and He did all of this on the altar of the cross!  There was no other way.  He became the sacrificial Lamb of God Who took away the sins of the world.  He freed all who choose to believe that He did just that!  He took away all sins of those whose faith is in Him.  He freed His followers from Satan’s dark power.  He overcame death that all His followers may have His life within.  “For God so loved the world”…that is you and me.

  When Jesus’ hour came – all your sins and mine were on Him as He suffered on the cross.  When His hour came – it was 100% sacrificial!

(NASB) Philippians 2:6-8 “who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

  This is why Jesus came, born in a stable in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, had a ministry in Judea and Galilee and was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane and nailed to a cross (outside Jerusalem) ~ for you!