Old/New Testament

Mary Magdalene anoints Christ. The Passover lamb is eaten. Christ is taken. Peter denies him, with many other things that were demanded of Christ.

14 After two days followed Passover, and the days of sweet bread. And the high priests and the scribes were seeking means to apprehend Jesus by craft and put him to death. ² But, they said, not in the feast day, lest any uproar arise among the people.

³ When he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at food, there came a woman having an alabaster jar of anointing oil called nard, which was pure and costly. And she broke the jar and poured it on his head. ⁴ And there were some who were displeased in themselves and said, Why this waste of oyntment? ⁵ For it could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor. And they grudged against her.

⁶ And Jesus said, Let her be in rest. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work on me. ⁷ For you will have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish, you may do them good. But me you will not have always. ⁸ She has done what she could: she came beforehand to anoint my body for the burial. ⁹ Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done will be told, in remembrance of her.

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the high priests, to betray him to them. ¹¹ When they heard that, they were glad, and promised that they would give him money. And he sought an opportune way to betray him.

¹² And the first day of sweet bread, when people offer the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, Where would you like us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover lamb? ¹³ And he sent forth two of his disciples and said to them, Go into the city, and there a man will meet you bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him. ¹⁴ And wherever he goes in, say to the head of the house, The Teacher asks, Where is the guest chamber where I may eat the Passover lamb with my disciples? ¹⁵ And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

¹⁶ And his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found things as he had said to them, and made ready the Passover lamb.

¹⁷ And in the evening, he came with the twelve. ¹⁸ And as they sat at the table and ate, Jesus said, Truly I say to you that one of you who eats with me will betray me. ¹⁹ And they began to mourn, and to say to him one by one, Is it I? And another said, Is it I?

²⁰ He answered and said to them, It is one of the twelve, and the same dips with me in the platter. ²¹ The Son of man goes as it is written of him. But woe is to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed. It would have been good for that man if he had never been born.

²² And as they ate, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke, and gave to them and said, Take, eat; this is my body. ²³ And he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank of it. ²⁴ And he said to them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. ²⁵ Truly I say to you, I will drink no more of this fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

²⁶ And when they had sung praises, they went out to the Mount of Olives.