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Why this waste? For this might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor."

But Jesus noticed it and said to them :

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Why are you troubling the woman? For she has done a good thing to me. For you always

have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. For in pouring this perfume on my body she did it to prepare me for burial.

To

tell you the truth, Wherever this good news shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman has done shall be talked about in memory of her."

Then one of the twelve who was called Judah Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said : "What are you willing to give me and I will hand him over to you."

They agreed to give him a hundred dollars. So from that time he kept seeking an opportunity to hand him over.

Now on the first day of unleaven bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said:

"Where do you want us to get ready for you to eat the passover?"

"Go into the city to so and so," he said, "and say to him: The Master says, My time is at

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hand. I keep the passover at your house with

my disciples."

The disciples did as Jesus directed them and got the passover ready.

Now when evening had come, he was at table with the twelve disciples, and while they were eating, he said:

"To tell you the truth, One of you will betray me."

They were very sorry, and began to say to each other:

"Surely it is not I, Lord?"

The

"He who dipped his hand with me in the dish," he answered, "he will betray me. Son of man is going just as it is written about him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would be good for that man if he had not been born."

"Surely it is not I, Rabbi?" Judah his betrayer answered.

"You have said."

Now while they were eating Jesus took a loaf of bread, blessed God, broke, gave to the disciples and said:

"Take, eat, this is my body."

And he took a cup, gave thanks, gave to them, and said:

"All of you drink it. For this is my blood of

the agreement which is shed for many for the putting away of sins. But I tell you, I will never drink of this fruit of the vine hereafter, till that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom."

When they had sung a hymn they went out to the mount of Olives.

Then Jesus said to them:

"All of you will find a hindrance in me this night. For it is written :

I will smite the shepherd

And the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad. But after I have been raised up I shall go before you into Galilee.”

"If all shall find a hindrance in you," Peter answered him, "I will never find a hindrance."

"To tell you the truth," Jesus said to him, "this night before the cock crows you will deny me three times."

"Even if I must die with you I will not deny you."

All the disciples said the same.

Then Jesus came with them to an enclosed piece of ground called Gethsemane and said to the disciples:

"Sit here while I go over there and pray."

He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee

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and began to be grieved and to be in great distress. Then he said to them:

"My soul is very much grieved even to death. Stay here and watch with me.

And he went forward a little and fell on his face and prayed, and said:

"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I desire but as thou dost." He comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter :

"What! could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak."

He went away again a second time and prayed : "My father, if this cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done."

He again came and found them sleeping. For their eyes were heavy. And he left them again and went away and prayed a third time, and said again the same words. Then he came to the disciples and said to them :

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Sleep on now and take your rest. See, the hour is at hand and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us be going. Look, my betrayer is at hand."

And while he was still talking, Judah one of the twelve came and with him a great crowd with

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swords and clubs from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Now his betrayer gave them a sign and said: "Whomever I shall kiss, that is he. Secure

him."

He at once came to Jesus and said:

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‘Hail, Rabbi,” and eagerly kissed him.

'Friend," Jesus said to him, " do that for which. you are here."

Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and secured him. And one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

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Or do you think I cannot call my Father and he will send me at once more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?"

In that hour Jesus said to the crowds :

"Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you did not secure me. But all this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled."

Then all his disciples left him and fled.