Luke 22:1-71
22 Now the festival of the unfermented cakes, the so-called Passover,+ was getting near.
2 Also, the chief priests and the scribes were seeking the effective way for them to get rid of him,+ for they were in fear of the people.+
3 But Satan entered into Judas, the one called Is·carʹi·ot, who was numbered among the twelve;+
4 and he went off and talked with the chief priests and [temple] captains about the effective way to betray him to them.+
5 Well, they rejoiced and agreed to give him silver money.+
6 So he consented, and he began to seek a good opportunity to betray him to them without a crowd around.+
7 The day of the unfermented cakes now arrived, on which the passover [victim] must be sacrificed;+
8 and he dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the passover ready+ for us to eat.”
9 They said to him: “Where do you want us to get [it] ready?”
10 He said to them:+ “Look! When YOU enter into the city a man carrying an earthenware vessel of water will meet YOU. Follow him into the house into which he enters.+
11 And YOU must say to the landlord of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you: “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the passover with my disciples?”’+
12 And that [man] will show YOU a large upper room furnished. Get [it] ready there.”+
13 So they departed and found it just as he had said to them, and they got the passover ready.+
14 At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him.+
15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with YOU before I suffer;
16 for I tell YOU, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”+
17 And, accepting a cup,+ he gave thanks and said: “Take this and pass it from one to the other among yourselves;
18 for I tell YOU, From now on I will not drink again from the product of the vine until the kingdom of God arrives.”+
19 Also, he took a loaf,+ gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying: “This means* my body+ which is to be given in YOUR behalf.+ Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”+
20 Also, the cup+ in the same way after they had the evening meal, he saying: “This cup means the new covenant+ by virtue of my blood,+ which is to be poured out in YOUR behalf.*+
21 “But, look! the hand of my betrayer+ is with me at the table.+
22 Because the Son of man is going his way according to what is marked out;+ all the same, woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”+
23 So they started to discuss among themselves the question of which of them would really be the one that was about to do this.+
24 However, there also arose a heated dispute among them over which one of them seemed to be greatest.+
25 But he said to them: “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those having authority over them are called Benefactors.+
26 YOU, though, are not to be that way.+ But let him that is the greatest among YOU become as the youngest,+ and the one acting as chief as the one ministering.*+
27 For which one is greater, the one reclining at the table or the one ministering? Is it not the one reclining at the table? But I am in YOUR midst as the one ministering.+
28 “However, YOU are the ones that have stuck+ with me in my trials;+
29 and I make a covenant with YOU, just as my Father has made a covenant+ with me, for a kingdom,+
30 that YOU may eat+ and drink at my table in my kingdom,+ and sit on thrones+ to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 “Simon, Simon, look! Satan+ has demanded to have YOU men to sift YOU as wheat.+
32 But I have made supplication+ for you that your faith may not give out; and you, when once you have returned, strengthen+ your brothers.”
33 Then he said to him: “Lord,* I am ready to go with you both into prison and into death.”+
34 But he said: “I tell you, Peter, A cock will not crow today until you have three times denied knowing me.”+
35 He also said to them: “When I sent+ YOU forth without purse and food pouch and sandals, YOU did not want for anything, did YOU?” They said: “No!”*
36 Then he said to them: “But now let the one that has a purse take it up, likewise also a food pouch; and let the one having no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.
37 For I tell YOU that this which is written must be accomplished in me, namely, ‘And he was reckoned with lawless ones.’+ For that which concerns me is having an accomplishment.”+
38 Then they said: “Lord,* look! here are two swords.” He said to them: “It is enough.”
39 On going out he went as customarily to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed him.+
40 Having come to the place he said to them: “Carry on prayer, that YOU do not enter into temptation.”+
41 And he himself drew away from them about a stone’s throw, and bent his knees and began to pray,
42 saying: “Father, if you wish, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, let, not my will,+ but yours take place.”+
43 Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.+
44 But getting into an agony he continued praying more earnestly;+ and his sweat became as drops of blood falling to the ground.*+
45 And he rose from prayer, went to the disciples and found them slumbering from grief;+
46 and he said to them: “Why are YOU sleeping? Rise and carry on prayer, that YOU do not enter into temptation.”+
47 While he was yet speaking, look! a crowd, and the [man] called Judas, one of the twelve, was going before them;+ and he approached Jesus to kiss him.+
48 But Jesus said to him: “Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?”+
49 When those about him saw what was going to happen, they said: “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”+
50 A certain one of them even did strike the slave of the high priest and took off his right ear.+
51 But in reply Jesus said: “LET it go as far as this.” And he touched the ear and healed him.+
52 Jesus then said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and older men that had come there for him: “Did YOU come out with swords and clubs as against a robber?+
53 While I was with YOU in the temple+ day after day YOU did not stretch out YOUR hands against me.+ But this is YOUR hour+ and the authority+ of darkness.”+
54 Then they arrested him and led+ him off and brought him into the house of the high priest;+ but Peter was following at a distance.+
55 When they lit a fire in the midst of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting in among them.+
56 But a certain servant girl saw him sitting by the bright fire and looked him over and said: “This man also was with him.”+
57 But he denied+ it,* saying: “I do not know him, woman.”+
58 And after a short time another person seeing him said: “You also are one of them.” But Peter said: “Man, I am not.”+
59 And after about an hour intervened a certain other [man] began insisting strongly: “For a certainty this [man] also was with him; for, in fact, he is a Gal·i·leʹan!”+
60 But Peter said: “Man, I do not know what you are saying.” And instantly, while he was yet speaking, a cock crowed.+
61 And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter, and Peter recalled the utterance of the Lord when he said to him: “Before a cock crows today you will disown me three times.”+
62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.+
63 Now the men that had him* in custody began to make fun+ of him, hitting+ him;+
64 and after covering him over they would ask and say: “Prophesy. Who is it that struck you?”+
65 And they went on saying many other things in blasphemy+ against him.
66 At length when it became day, the assembly of older men of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together,+ and they haled him into their Sanʹhe·drin hall,* saying:+
67 “If you are the Christ,+ tell us.” But he said to them: “Even if I told YOU, YOU would not believe it at all.+
68 Moreover, if I questioned YOU, YOU would not answer at all.+
69 However, from now on the Son of man+ will be sitting at the powerful right+ hand* of God.”+
70 At this they all said: “Are you, therefore, the Son of God?” He said to them: “YOU yourselves are saying+ that I am.”
71 They said: “Why do we need further witness?+ For we ourselves have heard [it] out of his own mouth.”+
Footnotes
^ “Which is to be given . . . poured out in your behalf,” P75אABWVgSyh,pArm; DIt omit these words of vss 19, 20.
^ Or, “serving.”
^ Or, “Master.”
^ Lit., “For nothing!”
^ Or, “Master.”
^ Vss 43, 44 are contained in א*DVgSyc,h,hi,pArm; P75אcABWSys omit.
^ “Him,” AD*VgSyh.
^ “Him,” אBDItVg; ASyp, “Jesus.”
^ Or, “their Sanhedrin.”
^ Or, “at the right hand of the power.”
