Book of Common Prayer

The sweet living, love, and works of the people who believe in Christ.

12 I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercifulness of God, to make your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable serving of God. ² Do not fashion yourselves to this world, but be changed in your nature by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is that good, that favourable, and perfect will of God.

³ For I say by the grace that is given to me, to everyone among you, that no one should think of himself more than it behoves him to think, but should soberly judge of himself, as God has given to each the measure of faith. ⁴ Just as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same service, ⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and everyone among us one another’s members. ⁶ Seeing that we have different gifts, according to the grace that is given to us, if one has the gift of prophecy, let him have it agreeing to the faith. ⁷ Let him who has an office attend to his duty. Let him who teaches take heed to his doctrine. ⁸ Let him who exhorts give heed to his exhortation. If anyone gives, let him do it with sincerity. Let him who governs do it with diligence. If anyone shows mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness.

The Magdalene anoints Christ. They eat the Passover lamb and the supper of the Lord. Christ prays in the garden. Judas betrays him. Peter strikes off Malcus’ ear. Christ is accused by false witnesses. Peter denies him.

26 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, ² You know that after two days will be the Passover. And the Son of man will be delivered to be crucified.

³ Then the chief priests, scribes, and elders of the people assembled together at the palace of the high priest called Caiaphas ⁴ and held a council, how they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill him. ⁵ But, they said, not on the holy day, lest any uproar arise among the people.

⁶ When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ there came to him a woman who had an alabaster jar of precious anointing oil, and poured it on his head as he sat at the board. ⁸ When his disciples saw that, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste? ⁹ This oyntment might well have been sold, and the money given to the poor. ¹⁰ When Jesus understood this he said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? She has wrought a good work upon me. ¹¹ For you will have poor folk always with you, but me you will not have always. ¹² And in that she poured this oyntment on my body, she did it to bury me with. ¹³ Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout all the world, there also will this that she has done be told, for a memorial of her.

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶ And from that time, he sought an opportunity to betray him.