Dual Panel1NOW as the feast of unleavened bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
2fear of the people made the chief priests and scribes try desperately to find a way of getting rid of Jesus.
3Then Satan entered into the mind of Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.
4He went and discussed with the chief priests and officers a method of getting Jesus into their hands.
5They were delighted and arranged to pay him cash for it.
6He agreed, and began to look for a suitable opportunity for betrayal when there was no crowd present.
7Then the day of unleavened bread arrived, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed,
8and Jesus sent off Peter and John with the words, "Go and make all the preparations for us to eat the Passover."
9"Where would you like us to do this?" they asked.
10And he replied, "Listen, just as you're going into the city a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him to the house he is making for.
11Then say to the owner of the house, 'The master has this message for youwhich is the room where my disciples and I may eat the Passover?'
12And he will take you upstairs and show you a large room furnished for our needs. Make all the preparations there."
13So they went off and found everything exactly as he had told them it would be, and they made the Passover preparations.
14Then, when the time came, he took his seat at table with the apostles,
15and spoke to them, "With all my heart I have longed to eat this Passover with you before the time comes for me to suffer.
16Believe me, I shall not eat the Passover again until all that it means is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
17Then taking a cup from them, he thanked God and said, "Take this and share it amongst yourselves,
18for I tell you that from this moment I shall drink no more wine until the kingdom of God comes."
19Then he took a loaf and after thanking God he broke it and gave it to them, with these words, "This is my body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me."
20So too, he gave them a cup after supper with the words, "This cup is the new agreement made hi my own blood which is shed for you.
21Yet the hand of the man who is betraying me lies with mine on this table.
22The Son of Man goes on his appointed way: yet alas for the man by whom he is betrayed!"
23And at this they began to debate among themselves as to which of them would do this thing.
24And then a dispute arose among them as to who should be considered the most important.
25But Jesus said to them, "Among the heathen it is their kings who lord it over them, and their rulers are given the title of 'benefactors'.
26But it must not be so with you! Your greatest man must become like a junior and your leader must be a servant.
27Who is the greater, the man who sits down to dinner or the man who serves him? Obviously, the man who sits down to dinneryet I am among you as your servant.
28But you are the men who have stood by me in all that I have gone through,
29and as surely as my Father has given me my kingdom, so I give you
30the right to eat and drink at my table in that kingdom. Yes, you will sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!
31"Oh, Simon, Simon, do you know that Satan has asked to have you all to sift like wheat?
32but I have prayed for you that you may not lose your faith. Yes, when you have turned back to me, you must strengthen these brothers of yours."
33Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go to prison, or even to die with you!"
34"I tell you, Peter," returned Jesus, "before the cock crows today you will deny three times that you know me!"
35Then he continued to them all, "That time when I sent you out without any purse or wallet or shoesdid you find you needed anything?" "No, not a thing," they replied.
36"But now," Jesus continued, "if you have a purse or wallet, take it with you, and if you have no sword, sell your coat and buy one!
37For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in meAnd he was reckoned with transgressors. So comes the end of what they wrote about me."
38Then the disciples said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." And Jesus returned, "That is enough."
39Then he went out of the city and up on to the Mount of Olives, as he had often done before, with the disciples following him.
40And when he reached his usual place, he said to them, "Pray that you may not have to face temptation!"
41Then he went off by himself, about a stone's throw away, and falling on his knees, prayed
42in these words"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from mebut it is not my will, but yours, that must be done."
45Then he got to his feet from his prayer and walking back to the disciples, he found them sleeping through sheer grief.
46"Why are you sleeping?" he said to them. "You must get up and go on praying that you may not have to face temptation."
47While he was still speaking a crowd of people suddenly appeared led by the man called Judas, one of the twelve. He stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.
48"Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" said Jesus to him.
49And the disciples, seeing what was going to happen cried, "Lord, shall we use our swords?"
50And one of them did slash at the High Priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.
51But Jesus retorted, "That is enough!" And he touched his ear and healed him.
52Then he spoke to the chief priests, Temple officers and elders who were there to arrest him, "So you have come out with your swords and staves as if I were a bandit.
53Day after day I was with you in the Temple and you never laid a finger on mebut this is your hour and the power of darkness is yours!"
54Then they arrested him and marched him off to the High Priest's house. Peter followed at a distance,
55and sat down among some people who had lighted a fire in the middle of the courtyard and were sitting round it.
56A maidservant saw him sitting there in the firelight, peered into his face and said, "This man was with him too."
57But he denied it and said, "I don't know him, girl!"
58A few minutes later someone else noticed Peter, and said, "You're one of these men too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"
59Then about an hour later someone else insisted, "I am convinced this fellow was with him. Why, he is a Galilean!'
60"Man," returned Peter, "I don't know what you're talking about." And immediately, while he was still speaking, the cock crew.
61The Lord turned his head and looked straight at Peter, and into his mind flashed the words that the Lord had said to him... "You will disown me three times before the cock crows today."
62And he went outside and wept bitterly.
63Then the men who held Jesus made a great game of knocking him about.
64And they blindfolded him and asked him, "Now, prophet, guess who hit you that time!"
65And that was only the beginning of the way they insulted him.
66Then when daylight came, the assembly of the elders of the people, which included both chief priests and scribes, met and marched him off to their own council. There they asked him,
67"If you really are Christ, tell us!" "If I tell you, you will never believe me,
68and if I ask you a question, you will not answer me.
69But from now on the Son of Man will take his seat at the right hand of almighty God."
70Then they all said, "So you are the Son of God then?" "You are right; I am," Jesus told them.
71Then they said, "Why do we need to call any more witnesses, for we ourselves have heard this thing from his own lips?"