nsb - Matthew:26

nsb@Matthew:26:1 @ When Jesus had finished talking, he said to his disciples:

nsb@Matthew:26:2 @ »As you know, the Passover will be here in two days. At that time the Son of man will be captured and impaled.«

nsb@Matthew:26:3 @ The chief priest and the elders of the people assembled at the court of Caiaphas, the high priest.

nsb@Matthew:26:4 @ All of them, using deceit, worked together to capture Jesus and kill him.

nsb@Matthew:26:5 @ They insisted: »Not during the feast; it could start a riot among the people.«

nsb@Matthew:26:6 @ Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper.

nsb@Matthew:26:7 @ A woman came to him having an alabaster vase containing very precious ointment. She poured it upon his head while he was eating.

nsb@Matthew:26:8 @ The disciples saw it and were indignant. »To what purpose is this waste?

nsb@Matthew:26:9 @ »This ointment could have been sold for much and the money given to the poor.«

nsb@Matthew:26:10 @ Jesus was aware of this and said: »Why do you trouble the woman? Her expression to me was good.

nsb@Matthew:26:11 @ »The poor are always with you, but I am not always with you.

nsb@Matthew:26:12 @ »She poured this ointment on my body to prepare me for burial.

nsb@Matthew:26:13 @ »I tell you, Everywhere this good news is preached in the entire world, this good deed done by this woman will be spoken of in memory of her.«

nsb@Matthew:26:14 @ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests.

nsb@Matthew:26:15 @ He asked them: »What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you?« They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

nsb@Matthew:26:16 @ He continued to seek opportunity to turn him over to them.

nsb@Matthew:26:17 @ The first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus. They asked: »Where do you wish to eat the Passover?«

nsb@Matthew:26:18 @ Jesus told them to go into the city and tell a certain man: »The Teachers time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.«

nsb@Matthew:26:19 @ The disciples did as Jesus told them, to get ready for the Passover.

nsb@Matthew:26:20 @ When evening arrived, he sat down to eat with the twelve disciples.

nsb@Matthew:26:21 @ While they ate, he said: »One of you will betray me.«

nsb@Matthew:26:22 @ They were filled with sorrow, and each one asked him: »Is it I, Lord?«

nsb@Matthew:26:23 @ He answered: »He who dips his hand with me in the dish is the same one who will betray me.

nsb@Matthew:26:24 @ »It is written that the Son of man will depart. The man who betrays him will experience much grief. It would have been better if that man had not been born.«

nsb@Matthew:26:25 @ Judas, the man who betrayed him, asked: »Is it I, Rabbi?« Jesus replied: »You said it.«

nsb@Matthew:26:26 @ As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: »Take, eat; this is my body.«

nsb@Matthew:26:27 @ Then he took a cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: »Drink it all.«

nsb@Matthew:26:28 @ »This is my blood of the covenant, poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

nsb@Matthew:26:29 @ »I tell you, I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers kingdom.«

nsb@Matthew:26:30 @ After they sang a song of praise to God, they went to the Mount of Olives.

nsb@Matthew:26:31 @ Jesus said to them: »All of you will fall away because of me tonight. It is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

nsb@Matthew:26:32 @ »When I am raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.«

nsb@Matthew:26:33 @ Peter answered: »Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.«

nsb@Matthew:26:34 @ Jesus said: »I say to you, this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.«

nsb@Matthew:26:35 @ Peter protested: »Even if I must die for you, I would not deny you!« His disciples said the same thing.

nsb@Matthew:26:36 @ Jesus went with them to Gethsemane. He said to his disciples: »Sit here while I go over there and pray.«

nsb@Matthew:26:37 @ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled.

nsb@Matthew:26:38 @ He told them: »My heart is deeply grieved to the point of death. Stay with me and watch.«

nsb@Matthew:26:39 @ Then he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed: »My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.«

nsb@Matthew:26:40 @ When he came to the disciples, they were sleeping. He said to Peter: »Could you not watch with me one hour?

nsb@Matthew:26:41 @ »Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!«

nsb@Matthew:26:42 @ A second time he went away and prayed, saying: »Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, your will be done.«

nsb@Matthew:26:43 @ He returned to find them sleeping again, for their eyes were heavy.

nsb@Matthew:26:44 @ He went away to pray a third time, saying the same words.

nsb@Matthew:26:45 @ After returning to the disciples, he said: »Do you sleep now and take your rest? The hour is here and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

nsb@Matthew:26:46 @ »Arise, let us go; the man who betrays me is here.«

nsb@Matthew:26:47 @ As he spoke, Judas, one of the twelve, followed by a crowd carrying swords and spears, approached him. The chief priest and elders of the people had sent them.

nsb@Matthew:26:48 @ He that betrayed him gave them a sign. He told them: »The one I kiss is he. Take him.«

nsb@Matthew:26:49 @ He went directly to Jesus and said: »Hail, Rabbi,« and kissed him.

nsb@Matthew:26:50 @ Jesus told him: »Do that for which you came.« They laid hands on Jesus, and captured him.

nsb@Matthew:26:51 @ Look, one of them with Jesus stretched out his hand, drew his sword, and cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest.

nsb@Matthew:26:52 @ Jesus told him: »Put your sword in its place. Those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

nsb@Matthew:26:53 @ »Do you think I cannot ask my Father for help? He would send me more than twelve legions of angels.

nsb@Matthew:26:54 @ »How then will the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen this way?«

nsb@Matthew:26:55 @ That very hour Jesus said to the people, »Have you come out to take me with swords and sticks as if I were a thief? You did not take me when I taught in the Temple daily.

nsb@Matthew:26:56 @ »This has taken place so that the writings of the prophets will come true.« Then all his disciples left him.

nsb@Matthew:26:57 @ Those who captured Jesus took him to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. The scribes and those in authority also gathered there.

nsb@Matthew:26:58 @ But Peter kept his distance. He followed him to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the servants, to see the outcome.

nsb@Matthew:26:59 @ The chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus. They wanted to put him to death.

nsb@Matthew:26:60 @ They failed, even though a number of false witnesses came.

nsb@Matthew:26:61 @ Later two witnesses came. They said: »This man said, I am able to destroy the Temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.«

nsb@Matthew:26:62 @ The high priest stood up and said to him: »Have you no answer? What is it these say against you?«

nsb@Matthew:26:63 @ Jesus said nothing. The high priest said to him: »I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.«

nsb@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus said to him: »You said it yourself. And I say to you, after this you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.«

nsb@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest ripped his robes apart and said: »He has said evil against God! Why do we need more witnesses? You have heard his words of blasphemy!«

nsb@Matthew:26:66 @ »What is your opinion?« The crowd answered: »Put him to death!«

nsb@Matthew:26:67 @ They spat in his face and hit him, saying:

nsb@Matthew:26:68 @ »Prophesy to us, you Christ; tell us who hit you!«

nsb@Matthew:26:69 @ Peter was seated in the square outside the house, and a servant-girl came to him. She said: »You were with Jesus the Galilean.«

nsb@Matthew:26:70 @ In front of everybody, he replied: »I do not know what you are talking about.«

nsb@Matthew:26:71 @ When he reached the gate, another saw him and said: »This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.«

nsb@Matthew:26:72 @ Again he denied with an oath: »I have no knowledge of the man.«

nsb@Matthew:26:73 @ A few moments later, those who were near approached and said to Peter: »Indeed, you are one of them, because the way you speak gives you away.«

nsb@Matthew:26:74 @ Then with curses and oaths he said: »I do not know the man!« And immediately a rooster crowed.

nsb@Matthew:26:75 @ Peter remembered what Jesus told him: »Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.« He went out and wept bitterly.