riversident@Luke:22:1 @ THE Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
riversident@Luke:22:2 @ The high priests and the scribes were intent upon finding some way to destroy Jesus; for they were afraid of the people.
riversident@Luke:22:3 @ But Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve,
riversident@Luke:22:4 @ and he went away and talked over with the high priests and officers how he could betray him.
riversident@Luke:22:5 @ They were delighted and agreed to give him money.
riversident@Luke:22:6 @ He promised, and was on the lookout for an opportunity to betray him to them when the crowd was not with him.
riversident@Luke:22:7 @ The day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb must be sacrificed,
riversident@Luke:22:8 @ and Jesus sent Peter and John, telling them,
riversident@Luke:22:9 @ They said to him, "Where do you wish us to make ready?"
riversident@Luke:22:10 @ He said,
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riversident@Luke:22:13 @ They went away and found everything just as he had said, and they prepared the Passover.
riversident@Luke:22:14 @ When the hour came, he reclined at table and the apostles with him.
riversident@Luke:22:15 @ He said to them,
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riversident@Luke:22:17 @ He took a cup and gave thanks and said,
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riversident@Luke:22:19 @ Then he took a loaf and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying,
riversident@Luke:22:20 @ He took the cup in the same manner after supper, saying,
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riversident@Luke:22:23 @ They began to question among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do this.
riversident@Luke:22:24 @ There was also a dispute among them as to which of them should be regarded as superior.
riversident@Luke:22:25 @ He said to them,
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riversident@Luke:22:33 @ Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."
riversident@Luke:22:34 @ Jesus said,
riversident@Luke:22:35 @ He said to them, They said, "We lacked for nothing."
riversident@Luke:22:36 @ He said to them,
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riversident@Luke:22:38 @ They said, "Master, here are two swords." He said to them,
riversident@Luke:22:39 @ He went out and made his way, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.
riversident@Luke:22:40 @ When he came to the place, he said to them,
riversident@Luke:22:41 @ He parted from them about a stone's throw and kneeled down and prayed,
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riversident@Luke:22:43 @ An angel from heaven appeared to him strengthening him.
riversident@Luke:22:44 @ Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood failing upon the ground.
riversident@Luke:22:45 @ Then he rose from prayer and came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow.
riversident@Luke:22:46 @ He said to them,
riversident@Luke:22:47 @ While he was still speaking there came a crowd, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came up to Jesus to kiss him.
riversident@Luke:22:48 @ Jesus said to him,
riversident@Luke:22:49 @ Those about Jesus, seeing what was going to happen, said, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?"
riversident@Luke:22:50 @ One of them did strike the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.
riversident@Luke:22:51 @ But Jesus said, and he touched his ear and healed it.
riversident@Luke:22:52 @ Jesus said to the high priests and officers of the Temple and elders who had come out against him,
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riversident@Luke:22:54 @ After arresting him they led him away and brought him into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance.
riversident@Luke:22:55 @ They lighted a fire in the center of the court and seated themselves around it, and Peter seated himself in the midst of them.
riversident@Luke:22:56 @ A maid saw him sitting near the light, and, looking hard at him, said, "This man was with him too."
riversident@Luke:22:57 @ But he denied, saying, "Woman, I do not know him."
riversident@Luke:22:58 @ After a short space another \'97 a man \'97 saw him, and said, "You too are one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not."
riversident@Luke:22:59 @ About an hour later, another man asserted positively, "Truly this man was with him too, for he is a Galilaean."
riversident@Luke:22:60 @ But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately while he was speaking the cock crew,
riversident@Luke:22:61 @ and the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Master, how he had said to him,
riversident@Luke:22:62 @ And he went out and wept bitterly.
riversident@Luke:22:63 @ The men who had arrested Jesus made sport of him, beating him,
riversident@Luke:22:64 @ and, after blindfolding him, they asked him, "Prophesy who it is that struck you."
riversident@Luke:22:65 @ Many other insulting words they said to him.
riversident@Luke:22:66 @ When daylight came, the eldership of the people assembled, both high priests and scribes, and they led him to their council, saying,
riversident@Luke:22:67 @ "If you are the Christ, tell us." He said to them,
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riversident@Luke:22:70 @ They all said, "You then are the Son of God?" He said to them,
riversident@Luke:22:71 @ They said, "Why do we need any more testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth."
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