Luke 22

1 And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,⋮

2 and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.⋮

3 And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,⋮

4 and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,⋮

5 and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,⋮

6 and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.⋮

7 And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,⋮

8 and he sent Peter and John, saying, 'Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'⋮

9 and they said to him, 'Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'⋮

10 And he said to them, 'Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,⋮

11 and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?⋮

12 and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;'⋮

13 and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.⋮

14 And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him,⋮

15 and he said unto them, 'With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,⋮

16 for I say to you, that no more may I eat of it till it may be fulfilled in the reign of God.'⋮

17 And having taken a cup, having given thanks, he said, 'Take this and divide to yourselves,⋮

18 for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'⋮

19 And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, 'This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye — to remembrance of me.'⋮

20 In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.⋮

21 'But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up is with me on the table,⋮

22 and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but woe to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'⋮

23 And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.⋮

24 And there happened also a strife among them — who of them is accounted to be greater.⋮

25 And he said to them, 'The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;⋮

26 but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you — let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;⋮

27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I — I am in your midst as he who is ministering.⋮

28 'And ye — ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,⋮

29 and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,⋮

30 that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'⋮

31 And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,⋮

32 and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'⋮

33 And he said to him, 'Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'⋮

34 and he said, 'I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'⋮

35 And he said to them, 'When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, 'Nothing.'⋮

36 Then said he to them, 'But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take it up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,⋮

37 for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'⋮

38 And they said, 'Sir, lo, here are two swords;' and he said to them, 'It is sufficient.'⋮

39 And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,⋮

40 and having come to the place, he said to them, 'Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'⋮

41 And he was withdrawn from them, as it were a stone's cast, and having fallen on the knees he was praying,⋮

42 saying, 'Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me — ;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' —⋮

43 And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;⋮

44 and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.⋮

45 And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,⋮

46 and he said to them, 'Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'⋮

47 And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,⋮

48 and Jesus said to him, 'Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'⋮

49 And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, 'Sir, shall we smite with a sword?'⋮

50 And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,⋮

51 and Jesus answering said, 'Suffer ye thus far,' and having touched his ear, he healed him.⋮

52 And Jesus said to those having come upon him — chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders — 'As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?⋮

53 while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'⋮

54 And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,⋮

55 and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them,⋮

56 and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, 'And this one was with him!'⋮

57 and he disowned him, saying, 'Woman, I have not known him.'⋮

58 And after a little, another having seen him, said, 'And thou art of them!' and Peter said, 'Man, I am not.'⋮

59 And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, 'Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;'⋮

60 and Peter said, 'Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.⋮

61 And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him — 'Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'⋮

62 and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.⋮

63 And the men who were holding Jesus were mocking him, beating him;⋮

64 and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, 'Prophesy who he is who smote thee?'⋮

65 and many other things, speaking evilly, they spake in regard to him.⋮

66 And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,⋮

67 saying, 'If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, 'If I may tell you, ye will not believe;⋮

68 and if I also question you, ye will not answer me or send me away;⋮

69 henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'⋮

70 And they all said, 'Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, 'Ye say it, because I am;'⋮

71 and they said, 'What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear it from his mouth.'⋮