Mark 14:16-26

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¹⁶ So the two disciples went on ahead into the city and found everything as Jesus had said, and prepared the Passover.

¹⁷ In the evening Jesus arrived with the other disciples, ¹⁸ and as they were sitting around the table eating, Jesus said, “I solemnly declare that one of you will betray me, one of you who is here eating with me.”

¹⁹ A great sadness swept over them, and one by one they asked him, “Am I the one?”

²⁰ He replied, “It is one of you twelve eating with me now. ²¹ I^[a] must die, as the prophets declared long ago; but, oh, the misery ahead for the man by whom I am betrayed. Oh, that he had never been born!”

²² As they were eating, Jesus took bread and asked God’s blessing on it and broke it in pieces and gave it to them and said, “Eat it—this is my body.”

²³ Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it and gave it to them; and they all drank from it. ²⁴ And he said to them, “This is my blood, poured out for many, sealing the new agreement^[b] between God and man. ²⁵ I solemnly declare that I shall never again taste wine until the day I drink a different kind^[c] in the Kingdom of God.”

²⁶ Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.