The Kiss of death

The sting now takes place, as Jesus knows that it is going to happen it really isn't much of a sting. If this doesn't prove what Jesus is ready to do for us and that he volunteered for this what does. If you saw some one coming with a bunch of armed thugs that you know want to capture you, would you stand around and wait to be kissed by the man you already knew was going to betray you? No I didn't think so. John makes reference to a Battalion of Roman soldiers - as this ran between 300-600 men I thinks this is a mistranslation as I can't see Pilate assigning that many men to pick up one 'criminal' especially as the point was to do it out of the public eye when Jesus was alone. Apparently this is limited to a few translations as others have it as band, which doesn't have a defined size that I could find. I guess you would have to check the original Greek to verify exactly what this says.
This passage also has a record of Jesus performing plastic surgery and reattaching the soldiers ear after it is cut off - I don't know about you but if I was Malchus and had my ear reattached by the son of God I would definitely be changing my opinion of Him, and changing sides.
Finally with all these temple guards and Roman soldiers about, you would definitely expect some of the others to be captured along with Jesus, after all you don't want to leave any ring leaders lying around now do you. God performs another miracle here in that they all escape just as Jesus had predicted.