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Jesus Foretells His Betrayal
When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." The disciples
looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. One of his disciples,
whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus; so Simon Peter
beckoned to him and said, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." So lying
thus, close to the breast of Jesus, he said to him, "Lord, who is it?" Jesus
answered, "It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it."
So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon
Iscariot. Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him,
"What you are going to do, do quickly." Now no one at the table knew why he
said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus
was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast"; or, that he should give
something to the poor. So, after receiving the morsel, he immediately went
out; and it was night. When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of
man glorified, and in him God is glorified; if God is glorified in him, God
will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children,
yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me; and as I said to the
Jews so now I say to you, `Where I am going you cannot come.' A new
commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved
you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are
my disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 13:21-35
The Plot to Kill Jesus
When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, "You
know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be
delivered up to be crucified." Then the chief priests and the elders of the
people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca'iaphas,
and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the
people."
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief
priests and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they
paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an
opportunity to betray him.
The Passover With the Disciples
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus,
saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the passover?" He
said, "Go into the city to a certain one, and say to him, `The Teacher says,
My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my
disciples.'" And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they
prepared the passover. When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve
disciples; and as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of
you will betray me." And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him
one after another, "Is it I, Lord?" He answered, "He who has dipped his hand
in the dish with me, will betray me. The Son of man goes as it is written of
him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have
been better for that man if he had not been born." Judas, who betrayed him,
said, "Is it I, Master?" He said to him, "You have said so."
Matthew 26:1-5,14-25 |
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