¹⁷ When it was evening, Jesus arrived with the 12 apostles. ¹⁸ While they were eating the meal, Jesus said, ‘I tell you this: One of you will help the Jewish leaders to take hold of me. It is someone who is eating this meal with me.’

¹⁹ The disciples became very sad. Each one of them said to Jesus, ‘Surely you do not mean me, do you?’

²⁰ Jesus said to them, ‘It is one of you 12 apostles. That man is eating from the same dish as I am.^{[a] 21} The Son of Man must die in the way that the Bible says. But it will be very bad for the man who gives me to my enemies. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.’