New Testament in a Year

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal^(A)

²¹ After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, “Truly, I tell all of you^[a] emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!” ²² The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking. ²³ One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

²⁴ So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking. ²⁵ Leaning forward on Jesus’ chest, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “He is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish.”^[b]

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.^{[c] 27} After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, “Do quickly what you are going to do!” ²⁸ Now no one at the table knew why Jesus^[d] said this to him. ²⁹ Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute. ³⁰ So Judas^[e] took the piece of bread, immediately went outside…and it was night.

The New Commandment

³¹ After Judas^[f] had gone out, Jesus said, “The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him. ³² If God has been glorified by him,^[g] God himself also will glorify the Son of Man,^[h] and he will do so^[i] quickly. ³³ Little children, I’m with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders^[j] I now tell you, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴ I’m giving you a new commandment…to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. ³⁵ This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial^(B)

³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”

Jesus answered him, “I’m going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on.”

³⁷ “Lord,^[k] why can’t I follow you now?” Peter asked him. “I would lay down my life for you!”

³⁸ Jesus answered him, “Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you^[l] emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.”