1 When Jesus had finished telling all these things, he talked to his disciples.
2 He said, You know that after two days it will be time for the Passover Feast. The Son of Man will be given over to his enemies to be nailed to a cross.
3 Then at that time the chief priests and the leaders of the people met together in the house of the high priest. His name was Caiaphas.
4 They planned how to catch Jesus by some trick and have him killed.
5 But they said, Let us not do it on the day of the feast. We do not want the people to start fighting about it.
6 When Jesus was in the town of Bethany, he was in the house of Simon, a man who had leprosy, a bad skin disease.
7 While Jesus sat at the table, a woman came to him. She had a bottle of oil. It smelled very nice and cost much money. She put the oil on Jesus head.
8 When the disciples saw this, they were angry. They said, Why was the oil wasted like that?
9 The oil might have been sold for much money. Then the money could have been given to poor people.
10 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good thing to me.
11 You will always have poor people with you. But I will not always be with you.
12 She has put oil on my body to make me ready to be buried.
13 I tell you the truth. Any place in the whole world where people tell the good news, people will also tell what she has done. People will remember her because of it.
14 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the chief priests.
15 He said, What will you give me if I help you catch Jesus? They gave him thirty pieces of silver money.
16 And from then on, Judas watched for a good way to help them catch Jesus. Supper
17 It was the first day of the feast with bread that has no yeast in it. The disciples came to Jesus and asked, Where do you want us to make ready for you to eat the Passover Feast?
18 He said, Go into the city to a certain man. Say to him, "The Teacher says, My time is near. I will come to your house with my disciples to eat the Passover Feast."
19 The disciples did what Jesus told them. They made the Passover food ready.
20 When evening came, Jesus sat down to eat with the twelve disciples.
21 As they were eating, Jesus said, I tell you the truth. One of you will give me over to people who hate me.
22 They were very sad and troubled. One after the other they began to say to him, Lord, is it I?
23 Jesus answered them, The man who is putting his hand in the dish with me is the one who will give me over.
24 The Son of Man will go away just as the holy writings tell about him. But the man who gives him over will have trouble. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born!
25 Judas was the one who would give Jesus over to the people who hated him. He said, Master, is it I? Jesus said, Yes, it is.
26 As they were eating, Jesus took some bread. He thanked God for it and broke it. He gave it to the disciples and said, Take this bread and eat it. It is my body.
27 He also took a cup. He thanked God for it. Then he gave it to the disciples and said, All of you drink from this.
28 This is my blood. My blood is the blood of the new agreement. It is given so that many people will be forgiven for the wrong things they did.