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Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.
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But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
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And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
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Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
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For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
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She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
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Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memorial of her.
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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them.
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Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
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Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
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And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him.
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And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples?
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And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there prepare ye for us.
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And his disciples went their way and came into the city. And they found as he had told them: and they prepared the pasch.
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And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve.
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And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say to you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me.
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But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one: Is it I?
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Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his hand in the dish.
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And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.
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And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body.
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And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it.
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And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.
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Amen I say to you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.
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And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of Olives.
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And Jesus saith to them: You will all be scandalized in my regard this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be dispersed.
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But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
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But Peter saith to him: Although all shall be scandalized in thee, yet not I.
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And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to thee, to-day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
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But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.
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And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his disciples: Sit you here, while I pray.
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And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy.
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And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.
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And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from him.
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And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.
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And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour?
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Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.
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And he cometh the third time and saith to them: Sleep ye now and take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.
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Rise up: let us go. Behold, he that will betray me is at hand.
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And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.
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And he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Lay hold on him: and lead him away carefully.
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And when he was come, immediately going up to him he saith: Hail, Rabbi! And he kissed him.
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But they laid hands on him and held him.
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And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the chief priest and cut off his ear.
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And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?
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I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
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Then his disciples, leaving him, all fled away.
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And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body. And they laid hold on him.
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But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.
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And they brought Jesus to the high priest. And all the priests and the scribes and the ancients assembled together.
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And Peter followed him afar off, even into the court of the high priest. And he sat with the servants at the fire and warmed himself.
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And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none.
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For many bore false witness against him: and their evidences were not agreeing.
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And some rising up, bore false witness against him, saying:
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We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands.
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And their witness did not agree.
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And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying: Answerest thou nothing to the things that are laid to thy charge by these men?
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But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God?
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And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming with the clouds of heaven.
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Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we any further witnesses?
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You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.
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And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.
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Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest.
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And when she had seen Peter warming himself looking on him, she saith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
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But he denied, saying: I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew.
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And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers by: This is one of them.
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But he denied again. And after a, while they that stood by said again to Peter: Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a Galilean.
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But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom you speak.
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And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me. And he began to weep,
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