`The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your
house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"
026:019 The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.
026:020 When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,
026:021 and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth
I tell you that one of you will betray me."
026:022 Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it
be I, Master?"
026:023 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me,"
He answered, "is the man who will betray me.
026:024 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."
026:025 Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it
be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.
026:026 During the meal Jesus 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."
026:027 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying,
"Drink from it, all of you;
026:028 for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for
the remission of sins--the blood which ratifies the Covenant.
026:029 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."
026:030 So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
026:031 Then said Jesus, "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.'