Part 34

026:010 But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.

026:011 The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.

026:012 In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

026:013 In solemn truth I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News shall be proclaimed, this deed of hers shall be spoken of in memory of her."

026:014 At that time one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the High Priests

026:015 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,

026:016 and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity to betray Him.

026:017 On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"

026:018 "Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him, `The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"

026:019 The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.

026:020 When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,

026:021 and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

026:022 Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?"

026:023 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me.

026:024 The Son of Man is indeed going as is written concerning Him; but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been a happy thing for that man if he had never been born."

026:025 Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.

026:026 During the meal Jesus took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it: it is my body."

026:027 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, "Drink from it, all of you;

026:028 for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for the remission of sins--the blood which ratifies the Covenant.

026:029 I tell you that I will never again take the produce of the vine till that day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom."

026:030 So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

026:031 Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, `I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.'

026:032 But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee."

026:033 "All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."

026:034 "In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me."

026:035 "Even if I must die with you," declared Peter, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested all the disciples.

026:036 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, "Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray."

026:037 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,