025:040 "But the King will answer them, "`In solemn truth I tell you that
in so far as you rendered such services to one of the humblest
of these my brethren, you rendered them to myself.'
025:041 "Then will He say to those at His left, "`Begone from me,
with the curse resting upon you, into the Fire of the Ages,
which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels.
025:042 For when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat; when thirsty,
you gave me nothing to drink;
025:043 when homeless, you gave me no welcome; ill-clad, you clothed me not;
sick or in prison, you visited me not.'
025:044 "Then will they also answer, "`Lord, when did we see Thee hungry
or thirsty or homeless or ill-clad or sick or in prison,
and not come to serve Thee?'
025:045 "But he will reply, "`In solemn truth I tell you that in so far
as you withheld such services from one of the humblest of these,
you withheld them from me.'
025:046 "And these shall go away into the Punishment of the Ages,
but the righteous into the Life of the Ages."
026:001 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,
026:002 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes.
And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
026:003 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled
in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
026:004 and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem
and put Him to death.
026:005 But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot
among the people."
026:006 Now when Jesus was come to Bethany and was at the house
of Simon the Leper,
026:007 a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment,
which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.
026:008 "Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;
026:009 "for this might have been sold for a considerable sum,
and the money given to the poor."
026:010 But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her?
For she has done a most gracious act towards me.
026:011 The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
026:012 In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare
me for burial.
026:013 In solemn truth I tell you that wherever in the whole world
this Good News shall be proclaimed, this deed of hers shall
be spoken of in memory of her."
026:014 At that time one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot,
went to the High Priests
026:015 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?"
So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,
026:016 and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity
to betray Him.
026:017 On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came
to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations
for you to eat the Passover?"
026:018 "Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him,
`The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your
house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"
026:019 The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.
026:020 When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,
026:021 and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth
I tell you that one of you will betray me."
026:022 Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it
be I, Master?"
026:023 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me,"
He answered, "is the man who will betray me.
026:024 The Son of Man is indeed going as is written concerning Him;
but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!
It had been a happy thing for that man if he had never been born."
026:025 Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it
be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.
026:026 During the meal Jesus took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and
broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this
and eat it: it is my body."
026:027 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying,
"Drink from it, all of you;
026:028 for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for
the remission of sins--the blood which ratifies the Covenant.
026:029 I tell you that I will never again take the produce of the vine
till that day when I shall drink the new wine with you
in my Father's Kingdom."
026:030 So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
026:031 Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail
in your fidelity to me; for it is written, `I will strike
the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered
in all directions.'
026:032 But after I have risen to life again I will go before
you into Galilee."