wmth - Matthew:26:17-30

wmth@Matthew:26:17 @ On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, »Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?«

wmth@Matthew:26:18 @ »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.'«

wmth@Matthew:26:19 @ The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.

wmth@Matthew:26:20 @ When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,

wmth@Matthew:26:21 @ and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, »In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me.«

wmth@Matthew:26:22 @ Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, »Can it be I, Master?«

wmth@Matthew:26:23 @ »The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me,« He answered, »is the man who will betray me.

wmth@Matthew:26:24 @ 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.«

wmth@Matthew:26:25 @ Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, »Can it be I, Rabbi?« »It is you,« He replied.

wmth@Matthew:26:26 @ 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.«

wmth@Matthew:26:27 @ And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, »Drink from it, all of you;

wmth@Matthew:26:28 @ for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for the remission of sins–the blood which ratifies the Covenant.

wmth@Matthew:26:29 @ 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.«

wmth@Matthew:26:30 @ So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.