1 The Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
2 and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to do away with him, because they were afraid of the people.
3 Satan went into Judas, called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.
4 He went off and discussed with the chief priests and the officers how he could hand him over to them.
5 They were delighted and agreed to give him money.
6 He accepted, and began looking for a good opportunity to hand him over to them when no crowd was around.
7 The day of Unleavened Bread came, when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
8 Jesus sent Peter and John, telling them, "Go and get the Passover ready for us to eat."
9 They asked him, "Where do you want us to get it ready?"
10 He told them, "Listen: as you go into the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he goes into,
11 and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
12 He will show you a large upstairs room, already furnished. Get things ready there."
13 They went and found everything as he had told them, and they got the Passover ready.
14 When the hour came, he took his place at the table, and the twelve apostles with him.
15 He said to them, "I have longed with great longing to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
17 And taking a cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves.
18 For I tell you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
19 And taking bread, he gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
20 In the same way, after the supper, he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you.
21 Yet look, the hand of the one who is betraying me is with me on the table.
22 The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been decreed; but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!"
23 They began to ask one another which of them it could be who was going to do this.
24 A quarrel also arose among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
25 He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
26 But not so with you. Instead, the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.
27 Who is greater, the one at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
28 "You are the ones who have stood by me in my trials;
29 and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
31 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, look: Satan has asked to have all of you, to sift you like wheat.
32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith may not give out. And you, once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."
33 He said to him, "Lord, with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."
34 But Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me."
35 And he said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, pack, or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they said.
36 He said to them, "But now whoever has a money bag should take it, and a pack as well; and whoever has no sword should sell his cloak and buy one.
37 For I tell you, what is written must yet be fulfilled in me: 'And he was counted among the lawless.' Indeed, what concerns me is reaching its end."
38 They said, "Lord, see, here are two swords." He told them, "That is enough."
39 He went out and made his way, as he usually did, to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him too.
40 When he reached the place, he told them, "Pray that you do not come into temptation."
41 He himself went off from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and began to pray,
42 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; yet let not my will but yours be done."
43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength.
44 And in his anguish he prayed more intensely, and his sweat became like thick drops of blood falling to the ground.
45 Getting up from prayer, he came to his disciples and found them asleep, worn out with grief.
46 He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray, so that you do not come into temptation."
47 While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came up to Jesus to kiss him.
48 Jesus said to him, "Judas, is it with a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?"
49 When those around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with the sword?"
50 And one of them struck the high priest's servant and cut his right ear off.
51 But Jesus responded, "Let it go this far." And he touched the man's ear and healed him.
52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if against a bandit?
53 Day after day I was with you in the temple, and you did not lift a hand against me. But this is your hour, and the authority of darkness."
54 They arrested him, led him off, and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter was following at a distance.
55 When they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
56 A servant girl saw him sitting in the firelight, stared at him, and said, "This man was with him too."
57 But he denied him: "Woman, I do not know him."
58 A little later someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not."
59 About an hour later another man insisted, "Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean too."
60 But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he had told him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
63 The men who were holding Jesus were mocking him and beating him.
64 They blindfolded him, kept hitting him in the face, and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who hit you?"
65 And they said many other insulting things to him.
66 When day came, the council of the elders of the people met, chief priests and scribes alike, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin, saying,
67 "If you are the Christ, tell us." He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe at all;
68 and if I ask you a question, you will not answer me at all, or release me.
69 From now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."
70 They all said, "So you are the Son of God?" He answered them, "You are saying that I am."
71 Then they said, "Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips."