Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁴ `But take care. Do not think too much about eating, drinking, and things in this life. If you do, that day will come and catch you like a trap.

³⁵ That day will come to all people who are living on the whole earth.

³⁶ Watch all the time. Ask God to make you strong to do right so that you will not go through all these things that are going to happen. Ask him to make you able to stand in front of the Son of Man.'

³⁷ Jesus taught in the temple every day. But at night he went out and stayed on the hill called the Mount of Olives.

³⁸ Early in the morning all the people came to hear him in the temple.

22 It was near the time for the feast with bread that has no yeast in it. This is called the Passover Feast.

² The chief priests and the scribes planned how to kill Jesus. But they feared the people.

³ Satan came into the heart of Judas. Judas was one of the twelve disciples. His other name was Iscariot.

⁴ Judas went away and talked things over with the chief priests and captains. He told them how he could help them catch Jesus.

⁵ They were glad, and they said they would give him money for it.

⁶ He agreed. He watched for a good way to help them catch Jesus when there were not too many people around.