These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Matthew 26
Brit Hadashah 75 verses
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When had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,
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- 2 “You that in two days’ time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
- 3 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
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and consulted how to get into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.
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- 5 But they said, “Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people.”
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Now when was come to Bethany and was at the house of Simon the Leper,
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- 7 a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.
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“Why such waste?” indignantly exclaimed the disciples;
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“for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor.”
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But heard it, and said to them, “Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.
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- 11 The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
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In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.
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- 13 In solemn I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News shall be proclaimed, this deed of hers shall be spoken of in memory of her.”
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At that time one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the High Priests
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- 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?” So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,
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and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity to betray Him.
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- 17 On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to with the question, “Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
- 18 “Go into the city,” He replied, “to a certain man, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.’”
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The disciples did as directed them, and got the Passover ready.
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When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,
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and the meal was proceeding, when said, “In solemn I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
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Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, “Can it be I, Master?”
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“The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me,” He answered, “is the man who will betray me.
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The Son of Man is indeed going as is written concerning Him; but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been a happy thing for that man if he had never been born.”
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Then Judas, the who was betraying Him, asked, “Can it be I, Rabbi?” “It is you,” He replied.
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- 26 During the meal took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it: it is my body.”
- 27 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, “Drink from it, all of you;
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for this is my which is to be poured out for many for the remission of sins—the which ratifies the Covenant.
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I tell you that I will never again take the produce of the vine till that day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
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So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
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- 31 Then said , “This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.’
- 32 But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into .”
- 33 “All may stumble and fail,” said , “but I never will.”
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“In solemn I tell you,” replied , “that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me.”
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- 35 “Even if I must die with you,” declared , “I will never disown you.” In like manner protested all the disciples.
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Then came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, “Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray.”
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And He took with Him and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,
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- 38 and He said to them, “My is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me.”
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Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. “My Father,” He said, “if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest.”
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Matthew 26:42 John 6:38 John 5:30 Philippians 2:8 Matthew 20:22 John 12:27-28 Hebrews 5:7 Numbers 14:5 Genesis 17:3 Numbers 16:22 John 14:31 John 18:11 John 11:41 Ezekiel 1:28 Mark 14:35-36 1 Chronicles 21:16 Revelation 19:10 Romans 15:1-3 2 Samuel 15:26 Mark 13:22 Acts 10:25 Matthew 24:24 Luke 22:41-42 Luke 17:16 - 40 Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to , “Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!
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Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the is right willing, but the body is frail.”
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Again a second time He went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is impossible for this cup to pass without my drinking it, Thy will be done.”
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He came and again found them asleep, for they were very tired.
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So He left them, and went away once more and prayed a third time, again using the same words.
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Then He came to the disciples and said, “Sleep on and rest. See, the moment is close at hand when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men.
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Rouse yourselves. Let us be going. My betrayer is close at hand.”
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He had scarcely finished speaking when Judas came—one of the Twelve—accompanied by a great crowd of men armed with swords and bludgeons, sent by the High Priests and Elders of the People.
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Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them. He had said, “The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him.”
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- 49 So he went straight to and said, “Peace to you, Rabbi!” And he kissed Him eagerly.
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“Friend,” said , “carry out your intention.” Then they came and laid their hands on and seized Him firmly.
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But one of those with drew his sword and struck the High Priest’s , cutting off his ear.
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- 52 “Put back your sword again,” said , “for all who draw the sword shall perish by the sword.
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Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels?
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- 54 In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?”
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Then said to the crowds, “Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.
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- 56 But all this has taken place in order that the writings of the Prophets may be fulfilled.” At this point the disciples all left Him and fled.
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But the officers who had laid hold of led Him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the Scribes and the Elders had assembled.
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And kept following Him at a distance, till he came even to the court of the High Priest’s palace, where he entered and sat down among the officers to see the issue.
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- 59 Meanwhile the High Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against in order to put Him to death;
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but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two
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- 61 who testified, “This man said, ‘I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of and three days afterwards to build a new one.’”
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Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, “Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?”
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however remained silent. Again the High Priest addressed Him. “In the of the ever-living ,” he said, “I now put you on your oath. Tell us whether you are the , the Son of .”
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Matthew 16:16 Leviticus 5:1 Matthew 27:12 John 10:24 1 Samuel 14:26 Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 27:14 John 20:31 John 1:34 Proverbs 29:24 1 John 5:11-13 1 Samuel 14:24 Matthew 27:54 John 6:69 John 8:25 John 10:30 Luke 22:66-71 1 Kings 22:16 Numbers 5:19-21 John 1:49 Psalm 2:6-7 Matthew 26:63-66 Acts 8:32-35 John 10:36 Mark 14:61 John 19:7 John 3:16-18 John 18:37 1 Peter 2:23 1 Samuel 14:28 Matthew 27:40 Isaiah 9:6-7 Daniel 3:16 Matthew 27:43 John 19:9 2 Chronicles 18:15 John 5:18-25 Psalm 38:12-14 - 64 “I am He,” replied . “But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
- 65 Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, “Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety.
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What is your verdict?” “He deserves to die,” they replied.
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Then they spat in His face, and struck Him—some with the fist, some with the open hand—
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Matthew 27:30 Isaiah 50:6 John 18:22 Isaiah 53:3 Isaiah 52:14 Matthew 5:39 Lamentations 3:30 Hebrews 12:2 Job 30:9-11 1 Kings 22:24 Mark 10:34 Mark 14:65 Acts 23:2-3 Deuteronomy 25:9 Numbers 12:14 1 Corinthians 4:13 2 Corinthians 11:20-21 John 19:3 Lamentations 3:45 Luke 22:63-65 Jeremiah 20:2 Mark 15:19 Micah 5:1 - 68 while they taunted Him, saying, “, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you.”
- 69 meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, “You too were with the Galilaean.”
- 70 He denied it before them all, saying, “I do not what you mean.”
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Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, “This man was with the Nazarene.”
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Again he denied it with an oath. “I do not the man,” he said.
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A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to , “Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it.”
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- 74 Then with curses and oaths he declared, “I do not the man.” Immediately a cock crowed,
- 75 and recollected the words of , how He had said, “Before the cock crows you will three times disown me.” And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.