² “You know that Passover comes in two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be executed.”

³ Then the ruling kohanim and elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the kohen gadol named Caiaphas. ⁴ They plotted together in order that they might seize Yeshua by stealth and kill Him. ⁵ “But not during the festival,” they were saying, “so there won’t be a riot among the people.”

A Woman Anoints Yeshua for Burial

⁶ Now while Yeshua was in Bethany at the house of Simon ha-Metzora, ⁷ a woman came up to Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive oil. And she poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table. ⁸ But when the disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? ⁹ It could have been sold for a lot, and the money given to the poor!”

¹⁰ But Yeshua, knowing this, said to them, “Why do you cause trouble for this woman? She’s done Me a mitzvah. ¹¹ You always have the poor with you,^[a] but you won’t always have Me. ¹² For when she poured this oil on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. ¹³ Amen, I tell you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Betrayed and Sold for Silver

¹⁴ Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judah of Kriot, went to the ruling kohanim ¹⁵ and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they weighed out thirty shekels^[b] of silver for him. ¹⁶ From then on, Judah began looking for a chance to hand Him over.

¹⁷ Now on the first day of matzah,^[c] the disciples came to Yeshua, saying, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

¹⁸ He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; at your house I am to keep the Passover with My disciples.”’” ¹⁹ The disciples did as Yeshua had ordered them, and they prepared the Passover.^[d]

New Covenant at the Last Seder

¹² Now on the first day of matzah, when they were slaughtering the Passover lamb, Yeshua’s disciples say to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

¹³ He sends two of His disciples and tells them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, ¹⁴ and wherever he enters, tell the homeowner, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’ ¹⁵ He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

¹⁶ The disciples went out, came to the city, and found just what Yeshua had told them. And they prepared the Passover.

The Boy Astonishes Jerusalem Scholars

⁴¹ Now His parents were going every year to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. ^{[a] 42} When He became twelve years old, they were going up according to festival custom.

The Day before Pesach

22 Now the Feast of Matzah, which is called Passover, was approaching. ² The ruling kohanim and Torah scholars were searching for a way to do away with Yeshua, for they were afraid of the people.

³ Then satan entered into Judah, the one from Kriot, one of the twelve. ⁴ And he went away and talked with the ruling kohanim and officers of the Temple guard about how he might deliver Yeshua over to them. ⁵ They were delighted and agreed to give him money. ⁶ So he agreed and began looking for a chance to hand Yeshua over to them without a crowd.

⁷ Then came the day of matzah when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. ⁸ Now Yeshua sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, so we may eat.”

⁹ Then they said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare?”

¹⁰ And He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters. ¹¹ And say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’ ¹² And with that, he will show you a large upper room, fully furnished. Make preparations there.” ¹³ So they left and found just what Yeshua had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

The Seder in the Upper Room

¹⁴ When the hour came, Yeshua reclined at table, and the emissaries with Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶ For I tell you, I will never eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

¹⁷ And when He had taken a cup and offered the bracha, He said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For I tell you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine from now on, until the kingdom of God comes.”

¹⁹ And when He had taken matzah^[a] and offered the bracha, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you. Do this in memory of Me.” ²⁰ In the same way, He took the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

¹³ The Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Yeshua went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the Temple, He found the merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves; also the moneychangers sitting there. ¹⁵ Then He made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the Temple, both the sheep and oxen. He dumped out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those selling doves, He said, “Get these things out of here! Stop making My Father’s house a marketplace!” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for your House will consume Me!”^[a]

¹⁸ The Judean leaders responded, “What sign do You show us, since You are doing these things?”

¹⁹ “Destroy this Temple,” Yeshua answered them, “and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰ The Judean leaders then said to Him, “Forty-six years this Temple was being built, and You will raise it up in three days?” ²¹ But He was talking about the temple of His body. ²² So after He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He was talking about this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Yeshua had spoken.

²³ Now when He was in Jerusalem for the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, seeing the signs He was doing.

⁴ Passover, the Jewish feast, was near.

Modeling Servanthood

13 Now it was just before the feast of Passover. Yeshua knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them until the end.^[a]

² While the seder meal was happening, the devil had already put in the heart of Judah from Kriot that he should hand over Yeshua. ³ Yeshua knew that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God. ⁴ So He gets up from the meal and lays aside His outer garment; and taking a towel, He wrapped it around His waist. ⁵ Then He pours water into a basin. He began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel wrapped around Him.

⁶ Then He comes to Simon Peter, who says to Him, “Master, are You going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Yeshua responded, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”

⁸ Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹ Simon Peter said to Him, “Master, then not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”

¹⁰ Yeshua said to him, “He who has bathed has no need to wash, except the feet; he is completely clean. And you all are clean, though not every one.” ¹¹ He knew who was betraying Him; for this reason, He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹² So after He had washed their feet and put His robe back on and reclined again, He said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you? ¹³ You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Master’—and rightly you say, for I am. ¹⁴ So if I, your Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash each other’s feet. ¹⁵ I have given you an example—you should do for each other what I have done for you.

¹⁶ “Amen, amen I tell you, a servant isn’t greater than his master, and the one who is sent isn’t greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them!”

Yeshua Reveals His Betrayer

¹⁸ “I am not speaking to all of you—I know whom I have chosen. But so the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ^{[b] 19} From now on I am telling you, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am. ²⁰ Amen, amen I tell you, he who receives the one I send, receives Me; and he who receives Me, receives the One who sent Me.”

²¹ After He said these things, Yeshua was agitated in spirit and testified, “Amen, amen I tell you, one of you will betray Me!”

²² The disciples began looking at each other, perplexed—who was He talking about? ²³ One of His disciples, whom Yeshua loved, was reclining at His side. ²⁴ Simon Peter nods to him and says, “Ask Him—who is He talking about?”

²⁵ Then he who leaned on Yeshua’s chest says to Him, “Master, who is it?”

²⁶ Yeshua answers, “It’s the one I will give this bit of matzah to, after I dip it.” After dipping the matzah,^[c] He takes it and gives it to Judah from Kriot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ And with that bit, satan entered into him. Then Yeshua tells him, “What you’re about to do, do quickly!”

²⁸ But no one reclining at the table knew why Yeshua said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judah had the moneybox, some thought Yeshua was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ So after Judah received the bit of matzah, he left immediately. Now it was night.