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| | At that time, he was in Bethany at Simon the leper's house, having a meal. A woman came in with an expensive white crystal container of valerian oil, which she opened and poured over his head. Some of the onlookers were indignant, saying "Why did she waste that nice oil like that? We could have sold that for more than three hundred shillings and charitably donated the money to the poor!" They kept whispering about what a bad thing she had done. But Jesus said, "Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done Me a favor. There will always be poor people around, and whenever you feel like helping them you can, but I am not going to be around forever. She did what she could: She came in advance to get my body ready for burial. Truly I tell you: Anywhere in the world that people preach the good news about me, they are also going to remember what she did and talk about it." | | At that time, he was in Bethany at Simon the leper's house, having a meal. A woman came in with an expensive white crystal container of valerian oil, which she opened and poured over his head. Some of the onlookers were indignant, saying "Why did she waste that nice oil like that? We could have sold that for more than three hundred shillings and charitably donated the money to the poor!" They kept whispering about what a bad thing she had done. But Jesus said, "Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done Me a favor. There will always be poor people around, and whenever you feel like helping them you can, but I am not going to be around forever. She did what she could: She came in advance to get my body ready for burial. Truly I tell you: Anywhere in the world that people preach the good news about me, they are also going to remember what she did and talk about it." |
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| − | After that, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to betray Jesus to the leading priests, | + | After that, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, went to betray Jesus to the leading priests, who were happy to hear it and offered to pay him. So Judas thought about how it would be best to do the deed, and the best time to do it. |
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| | + | So on the first day of the Passover holiday, after they killed the lamb, the students of Jesus said to him, "Where do you want us to go and get this lamb ready for you to eat?" He answered by sending two of the students to go to town. He told them, "Go into the city, and you'll find a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him. When he goes into a house, tell the man in charge, 'Our teacher wants to know where the dining room is, so we can eat our lamb.' He will show you a large room on the second floor, furnished and already prepared. Prepare for us there." So the students went into town, and it happened exactly like he had told them, so they got the lamb ready to eat. |
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| + | That evening, Jesus and the Twelve arrived. While they were sitting and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you who is eating with Me here will betray Me." They became very upset, and one after another said, "You don't mean me, do You?" "It's not I, is it?" Jesus told them, "It is one of you - the one who dips his bread in the bowl with me. The Son as man will die as the Scriptures said, but as for the man who betrays the Son as man, he would have been better off if he had never been born." |
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| + | And while they were eating, Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and distributed it, saying "Take this and eat it. This is My body." And He took the cup, said a prayer, and passed it around, and everybody drank some. Then he said to them, "This is My blood of the New Testament, which I bled for the sake of many people. Truly I say to you, I shall not drink wine again until the day I drink it anew in the kingdom of God." |
| − | |<span id="14:11"></span>And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
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| − | |who were happy to hear it and offered to pay him. So Judas thought about how it would be best to do the deed, and the best time to do it.
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| − | |<span id="14:12"></span>And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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| − | |So on the first day of the Passover holiday, after they killed the lamb, the students of Jesus said to him, "Where do you want us to go and get this lamb ready for you to eat?"
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| − | |<span id="14:13"></span>And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
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| − | |He answered by sending two of the students to go to town. He told them, "Go into the city, and you'll find a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him.
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| − | |<span id="14:14"></span>And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
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| − | |When he goes into a house, tell the man in charge, 'Our teacher wants to know where the dining room is, so we can eat our lamb.'
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| − | |The Greek '''καταλυμα''' means "upper room." Any homeowner kept this upper room, the best room in the house, for his guests, but the modern equivalent is "dining room." Can "lamb" be improved?
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| − | |<span id="14:15"></span>And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
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| − | |He will show you a large room on the second floor, furnished and already prepared. Prepare for us there."
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| − | |<span id="14:16"></span>And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
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| − | |So the students went into town, and it happened exactly like he had told them, so they got the lamb ready to eat.
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| − | |<span id="14:17"></span>And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
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| − | |<span id="14:18"></span>And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
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| − | |While they were sitting and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you who is eating with Me here will betray Me."
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| − | |<span id="14:19"></span>And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
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| − | |<span id="14:20"></span>And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
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| − | |Jesus told them, "It is one of you - the one who dips his bread in the bowl with me.
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| − | |<span id="14:21"></span>The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
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| − | |The Son as man will die as the Scriptures said, but as for the man who betrays the Son as man, he would have been better off if he had never been born."
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| − | |<span id="14:22"></span>And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
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| − | |And while they were eating, Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and distributed it, saying "Take this and eat it. This is My body."
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| − | |<span id="14:23"></span>And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
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| − | |<span id="14:24"></span>And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
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| − | |Then he said to them, "This is My blood of the New Testament, which I bled for the sake of many people.
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| − | |<span id="14:25"></span>Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
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| − | |Truly I say to you, I shall not drink wine again until the day I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."
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| − | |<span id="14:26"></span>And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
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| − | |Then, after they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives,
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