Simon Peter and John follow Jesus

Saint John - Chapter 18

Simon Peter and John follow Jesus. J-J Tissot

[15] And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.
Sequebatur autem Jesum Simon Petrus, et alius discipulus. Discipulus autem ille erat notus pontifici, et introivit cum Jesu in atrium pontificis.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

The intervention of Jesus on behalf of the Apostles at the moment of His own arrest had been successful.  "If therefore ye seek me", He had said, "let these go their way".  The fact was the enemies of the Saviour knew full well that the presence of the Apostles at the trial would only embarrass the accusers, and that what they needed to support the really compromising indictment against the prisoner were trusty witnesses of a very different stamp. One disciple, however, probably Saint Mark, for he is the only Evangelist who relates the incident, and he lived at Jerusalem, was seized by the sbirri.  Saint Mark tells us that the young man in question wore "a linen cloth cast about his naked body", leading us to suppose that, disturbed by the noise of the arrest and the flaring of the torches, he had run out of his house in haste just as he was.  No doubt the soldiers caught hold of him by this linen cloth, and he would have been arrested had he not slipped nimbly out of it and fled from them naked, leaving the garment in the hands of his astonished captors.  
Not one of His friends, therefore, shared the fate of Jesus; in the very first hour, indeed, in the first moment, they all foorsook Him and fled, as related in the sacred text, illustrated by the engraving in the previous post.  Not until the fatal procession had started on its way to the house of the High Priest did two of the disciples, Peter and John, regain something of their presence of mind and follow their Master afar off.  Peter, no doubt, now remembered all the fine promises he had made and which he was so very soon to forget and break.  As for John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, he at least was quite ready to follow Him and if need were to interfere on His behalf.  Moreover, he was on good terms with the people in the house of Caiaphas, and he might well hope to be able to get in there without danger, so as to send tidings of how things were going to the other Apostles and to the Mother of Jesus, whom he had left in all the anguish of her sad forebodings.  He therefore followed at some distance the multitude escorting the Master, hiding behind the low wall of the path which was very steep at that part of the way.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam