The Plot to Kill Jesus

26 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, ² “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

³ Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca′iaphas, ⁴ and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. ⁵ But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.”

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶ And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

The Passover with the Disciples

¹⁷ Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the passover?”^{[a] 18} He said, “Go into the city to such a one, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.’” ¹⁹ And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover.

²⁰ When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve disciples;^{[b] 21} and as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” ²² And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” ²³ He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me. ²⁴ The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” ²⁵ Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Is it I, Master?”^[c] He said to him, “You have said so.”