The King foretells His death and priests plot against Him
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📚And it happened that when Jesus had finished speaking all these words, he said to his disciples, 2 📚“You know that after two days the feast of the Passover✭ arrives, and the Son of man is to be handed over to be crucified”.3 📚✭Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 📚and plotted together to seize Jesus by trickery, and kill him. 5 📚✭But they said, “Not on the feast day, or there may be a riot among the people”.
The King is anointed by a woman
6 📚✭Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 📚a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very valuable fragrant oil and poured it on his head, as he sat at the table. 8 📚✭But when his disciples saw it, they were indignant and said, “Why this waste? 9 📚For this oil might have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor”.
10 📚✭But aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why trouble the woman? For she has done a good deed to me. 11 📚✭For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. 12 📚For when she poured this oil on my body, she did it for my burial. 13 📚✭Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in remembrance of her”.
Judas betrays the King for thirty pieces of silver
14 📚✭Then one of the Twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, 15 📚and said, “What will you give me? I myself will hand him over to you”. And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 📚✭And from that time he looked for an opportunity to betray him.
The King's last Passover
17 📚✭Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
18 📚✭And he said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’ ”
19 📚And the disciples did as Jesus ordered them, and prepared the Passover.
20 📚Now when evening came, he sat down with the Twelve. 21 📚✭And as they ate, he said, “Truly I say to you, one of you will betray me”.
22 📚✭And they became exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to him, “Lord, is it I?”
23 📚And he answered and said, “The one who is dipping his hand with me in the bowl, he will betray me. 24 📚✭The Son of man is going just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born”.
25 📚✭Then Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, “Teacher, is it I?” He said to him, “You have said it”.
The New Covenant
26 📚And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat. This is my body”.✭
27 📚And he took the cup, gave thanks✭, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 📚For this is my blood of the new covenant✭, which is shed for many✭ for the forgiveness of sins✭. 29 📚But I say to you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom”.✭
30 📚✭And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
31 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will stumble because of me this night. For it is written,
I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock
will be scattered.
32 📚✭“But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you to Galilee”.
33 📚✭Peter answered and said to him, “Even though everyone stumbles because of you, I will never stumble”.
34 📚Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times”.
35 📚✭Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, yet I will not deny you”. And all the disciples said the same.
The King in the Garden of Gethsemane
36 📚✭Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray”.
37 📚✭And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy-hearted. 38 📚✭Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Wait here and watch with me”.
39 📚✭And he went a little farther, and prostrated himself and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as you will”.
40 📚✭And he came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, “What, could you not watch with me for one hour? 41 📚✭Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”.
42 📚✭He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup may not pass from me, unless I drink it, your will be done”.
43 📚And he came again and found them asleep, for their eyes were heavy. 44 📚And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45 📚✭Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking rest? Look, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 📚Get up, let us go. Look, the one who is betraying me is near”.
The King is arrested
47 📚✭And while he was still speaking, suddenly Judas, one of the Twelve, came. And with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, coming from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 📚Now he who betrayed him had given them a signal, saying, “The one I kiss, he is the one. Seize him”. 49 📚And immediately he came up to Jesus, and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
50 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “Friend, why have you come?” Then they came, put their hands on Jesus, and held him. 51 📚And, suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out a hand, drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52 📚Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place. For all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword. 53 📚✭Do you think that now I cannot pray to my Father and he will immediately give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 📚But how then would the Scriptures✭ be fulfilled, that say it must happen like this?”
55 📚At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out as against a thief with swords and clubs to take me? Daily I sat with you teaching in the temple, and you did not seize me. 56 📚But all this has happened, so that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled”. Then all the disciples deserted him, and ran away✭.
The King before the high priest
57 📚And those who seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest✭, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 📚✭But Peter followed him, at a distance, to the courtyard of the high priest, went in and sat with the servants, to see the outcome.
59 📚Now the chief priests, and elders, and the whole Council✭, were looking for false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death, 60 📚✭but did not find any; even though many false witnesses came forward, they did not find any. Finally two false witnesses came forward, 61 📚and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.’ ”
62 📚And the high priest got up and said to him, “Do you give no answer? What is this that they testify against you?”
63 📚✭But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest responded and said to him, “I put you under oath by the living God: Tell us whether you are the Christ✭, the Son of God✭”.
64 📚Jesus said to him, “You have said it✭. Moreover, I tell you that hereafter you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of authority, and coming in the clouds of heaven”.
65 📚✭Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! What need do we have of any more witnesses? See, now you have heard his blasphemy. 66 📚✭What do you think?” They answered and said, “He is worthy of death”.
67 📚✭Then they spit in his face, and beat him with fists. And others slapped him, 68 📚✭saying, “Prophesy to us, Christ. Who is the one who hit you?”
The King denied by Peter
69 📚✭Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus of Galilee”.
70 📚But he denied it in front of them all, saying, “I don't know what you're saying”.
71 📚And when he had gone out on the porch, another servant girl saw him, and said to those who were there, “This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth”.
72 📚And again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man”.
73 📚✭And after a while, those who were standing near by came up to him and said to Peter, “You also are certainly one of them, for your accent gives you away”.