Book of Common Prayer

Think And Diligently Act In Love, Faith, And Holiness

⁹ I say^[a] to let your love be sincere^[b], while abhorring the evil, clinging^[c] to the good; ¹⁰ to be affectionate^[d] to one another in brotherly-love, preferring^[e] one another in honor; ¹¹ to not be hesitant in diligence; to be boiling in spirit, serving the Lord, ¹² rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, devoting-yourselves to prayer, ¹³ sharing in the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality. ¹⁴ Be blessing the ones persecuting you— be blessing and not cursing^[f]. ¹⁵ I say to rejoice with rejoicing ones, to weep with weeping ones; ¹⁶ to be thinking the same thing toward one another, not thinking lofty^[g] things, but being carried-along-with^[h] the lowly^[i] (do not be wise among yourselves); ¹⁷ to be giving-back evil for evil to no one; to be providing-for^[j] good things in the sight of all people, ¹⁸ living-in-peace with all people if possible— as far as from you; ¹⁹ to not be avenging yourselves, beloved, but give a place to the wrath of God. For it has been written: “Vengeance is for Me, I will repay, says the Lord” [Deut 32:35]. ²⁰ “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give-a-drink to him. For doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head” [Prov 25:21-22]. ²¹ Do not be overcome by^[k] evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

Jesus Celebrates Passover With The Twelve

¹⁷ Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened-Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover [meal]?” ¹⁸ And the One said, “Go into the city to so-and-so^[a], and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near. I am doing^[b] the Passover [meal] with you, along-with My disciples”’” ¹⁹ And the disciples did as Jesus directed them. And they prepared the Passover [meal]. ²⁰ And having become evening, He was reclining back [to eat] with the twelve.

The Betrayer Is Exposed

²¹ And while they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will hand Me over”. ²² And while being extremely grieved, each one began to say to Him, “I am not the one, am I, Lord?” ²³ And the One, having responded, said, “The one having dipped his hand with^[c] Me in the bowl— this one will hand Me over. ²⁴ The Son of Man is going just as it has been written about Him— but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is being handed-over! It would have been better for him if that man had not been born”. ²⁵ And having responded, Judas, the one handing Him over, said, “I am not^[d] the one, am I, Rabbi?” He says to him, “You said^[e] it ”.