Matthew 26
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The Plot to Kill Jesus
1When Jesus had finished saying all this, # Mk 14:1-2; Lk 22:1-2; Jn 11:47-53 He told His disciples, 2“You know # Or Know (as a command) that the Passover takes place after two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.” # Jn 11:55; 13:1
3Then the chief priests # Other mss add and the scribes and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, # Ps 2:2; Mt 26:57; Lk 3:2; Jn 11:47; 18:13,15; Ac 4:6 4and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him. # Mt 21:46; Jn 11:53 5“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”
The Anointing at Bethany
6While Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, # Mk 14:3-9; Jn 12:1-8 a man who had a serious skin disease, 7a woman approached Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive fragrant oil. She poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table. 8When the disciples # Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16 saw it, they were indignant. “Why this waste? ” they asked. 9“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”
10But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for Me. 11You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me. # Dt 15:11; Jn 12:8 12By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial. 13I assure you: Wherever this gospel # Mt 24:14; Mk 1:1; 13:10 is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”
14Then # Mk 14:10-11; Lk 22:3-6 one of the Twelve — the man called Judas Iscariot — went to the chief priests # Mt 10:4; Jn 6:71; 12:4; 13:30; Ac 1:16 15and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? ” So they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for him. # Ex 21:32; Zch 11:12-13; Mt 27:3 16And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him.
Betrayal at the Passover
17On the first day of Unleavened Bread # Mk 14:12-16; Lk 22:7-13 the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare the Passover so You may eat it? ”
18“Go into the city to a certain man,” He said, “and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time is near; I am celebrating the Passover at your place # Lit Passover with you with My disciples.’ ” # Jn 7:6,8; 8:20; 13:1; 17:1 19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover. 20When evening came, He was reclining at the table with the Twelve. 21While they were eating, He said, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me.” # Mk 14:17-21; Lk 22:21-23; Jn 13:21-26
22Deeply distressed, each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord? ”
23He replied, “The one who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl — he will betray Me. 24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, # Dn 9:26; Mk 9:12; Lk 24:25-27; Ac 17:2-3; 26:22-23; 1Co 15:3; 1Pt 1:10 but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
25Then Judas, His betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi? ” # Lk 22:70; Jn 1:38
“You have said it,” He told him.
The First Lord’s Supper
26As they were eating, # Mk 14:22-25; Lk 22:17-20: 1Co 11:23-25 Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, # Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16 and said, “Take and eat it; this is My body.” # Mt 14:19; 1Co 10:16 27Then He took a cup, and after giving thanks, He gave it to them and said, “Drink from it, all of you. 28For this is My blood that establishes the covenant; # Other mss read new covenant it is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins. # Ex 24:8; Mt 20:28; Mk 1:4; Heb 9:20 29But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way # Or drink new wine ; lit drink it new in My Father’s kingdom # Mt 4:23; Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25 with you.” 30After singing psalms, # Pss 113–118 were sung during and after the Passover meal. they went out to the Mount of Olives. # Mt 21:1; Lk 22:39; Jn 18:1
Peter’s Denial Predicted
31Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will run away # Or stumble because of Me, for it is written:
I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. # Zch 13:7; Mt 11:6; Jn 16:32 # Zch 13:7
32But after I have been resurrected, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” # Mt 28:7,10,16; Mk 16:7
33Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away because of You, I will never run away! ”
34“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times! ” # Mt 26:75; Lk 22:34; Jn 13:38
35“Even if I have to die with You,” Peter told Him, “I will never deny You! ” And all the disciples said the same thing.
The Prayer in the Garden
36Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, # A garden east of Jerusalem at the base of the Mount of Olives; Gethsemane = olive oil press # Mk 14:32-42; Lk 22:40-46 and He told the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. # Mt 4:21; 17:1 38Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow # Or I am deeply grieved, or I am overwhelmed by sorrow ; Ps 42:6,11; 43:5 — to the point of death. # Lit unto death Remain here and stay awake with Me.” # Ps 42:5-6; Mt 24:42; Jn 12:27 39Going a little farther, # Other mss read Drawing nearer He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” # Mt 20:22; Jn 5:30; 6:38; Php 2:8; Heb 5:7
40Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn’t you # = all 3 disciples because the verb in Gk is pl stay awake with Me one hour? 41Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this # Other mss add cup cannot pass # Other mss add from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.” # Mt 26:39; Mk 14:36; Lk 22:42; Jn 6:38 43And He came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. # Lit because their eyes were weighed down
44After leaving them, He went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more. 45Then He came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? # Or Sleep on now and take your rest. Look, the time is near. The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. # Jn 12:27; 13:1 46Get up; let’s go! See, My betrayer is near.”
The Judas Kiss
47While He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived. # Mk 14:43-50; Lk 22:47-53; Jn 18:3-11 A large mob, with swords and clubs, was with him from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48His betrayer had given them a sign: “The One I kiss, He’s the One; arrest Him! ” 49So he went right up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi! ” and kissed Him.
50“Friend,” # Mt 20:13; 22:12 Jesus asked him, “why have you come? ” # Or Jesus told him, “do what you have come for.” (as a statement)
Then they came up, took hold of Jesus, and arrested Him. 51At that moment one of those with Jesus reached out his hand and drew his sword. He struck the high priest’s slave and cut off his ear. # Lk 22:38; Jn 18:10
52Then Jesus told him, “Put your sword back in its place because all who take up a sword will perish by a sword. # Gn 9:6; Rv 13:10 53Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions # A Roman legion contained up to 6,000 soldiers. of angels? # 2Kg 6:17; Dn 7:10; Mt 4:11; Lk 8:30 54How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled # Mt 1:22; 26:24 that say it must happen this way? ”
55At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal, # Lit as against a criminal to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me. # Mk 12:35; Lk 21:37; Jn 7:19; 8:2; 18:20 56But all this has happened so that the prophetic Scriptures # Or the Scriptures of the prophets # Mt 26:54; Rm 1:2; 2Pt 1:20 would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples # Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16 deserted Him and ran away.
Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin
57Those # Mk 14:53-65; Jn 18:12-13,19-24 who had arrested Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas # Mt 26:3; Jn 11:49 the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had convened. 58Meanwhile, Peter was following Him at a distance right to the high priest’s courtyard. # Or high priest’s palace He went in and was sitting with the temple police # Or the officers, or the servants to see the outcome. # Lit end # Jn 7:32; 18:15
59The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so they could put Him to death. # Mt 5:22; Ac 6:11 60But they could not find any, even though many false witnesses # Dt 19:15; Ps 27:12; 35:11; Ac 6:13 came forward. # Other mss add they found none Finally, two # Other mss add false witnesses who came forward 61stated, “This man said, ‘I can demolish God’s sanctuary # Mt 27:40; Jn 2:19; Ac 6:14 and rebuild it in three days.’ ”
62The high priest then stood up and said to Him, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You? ” 63But # Lk 22:67-71 Jesus kept silent. # Is 53:7; Mt 27:12,14; Jn 19:9 Then the high priest said to Him, “By the living God I place You under oath: # Lv 19:12; Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21; Mt 5:33; 14:7; 23:16 tell us if You are the Messiah, the Son of God! ” # Lv 5:1; 1Sm 14:24,26; Mt 16:16
64“You have said it,” # Or That is true, an affirmative oath; Mt 27:11; Mk 15:2 Jesus told him. “But I tell you, in the future # Lit you, from now you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” # Ps 110:1; Dn 7:13; Mt 16:27; 24:30; Rv 1:7 # Ps 110:1; Dn 7:13
65Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! # Mk 3:29; Jn 10:33 Why do we still need witnesses? Look, now you’ve heard the blasphemy! # Nm 14:6; Mk 14:63; Ac 14:14 66What is your decision? ” # Lit What does it seem to you?
They answered, “He deserves death! ” # Lv 24:16; Jn 19:7 67Then they spit in His face # Mt 27:30; Mk 10:34; Lk 22:63-65; Jn 18:22 and beat Him; others slapped Him 68and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah! Who hit You? ” # Mk 14:65; Lk 22:64
Peter Denies His Lord
69Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. # Mk 14:66-72; Lk 22:55-62; Jn 18:16-18,25-27 A servant approached him and she said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”
70But he denied it in front of everyone: “I don’t know what you’re talking about! ”
71When he had gone out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene! ” # Mk 14:67; Ac 6:14
72And again he denied it with an oath, # Lv 19:12; Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21; Mt 5:33; 14:7; 23:16 “I don’t know the man! ”
73After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them, since even your accent # Or speech gives you away.”
74Then he started to curse # To call down curses on himself if what he said weren’t true and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man! ” Immediately a rooster crowed, 75and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” # Mt 26:34; Jn 13:38; Ac 3:13-14 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
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Matthew 26
26
The Plan to Kill Jesus
1After Jesus finished saying all these things, he told his followers, 2“You know that the day after tomorrow is the day of the Passover Feast. On that day the Son of Man will be given to his enemies to be killed on a cross.”
3Then the leading priests and the Jewish elders had a meeting at the palace of the high priest. The high priest’s name was Caiaphas. 4At the meeting, they planned to set a trap to arrest Jesus and kill him. 5But they said, “We must not do it during the feast. The people might cause a riot.”
A Woman with Perfume for Jesus
6Jesus was in Bethany. He was at the house of Simon, who had a harmful skin disease. 7While Jesus was there, a woman came to him. She had an alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. She poured this perfume on Jesus’ head while he was eating.
8His followers saw the woman do this and were upset. They asked, “Why waste that perfume? 9It could be sold for a great deal of money, and the money could be given to the poor.”
10But Jesus knew what happened. He said, “Why are you troubling this woman? She did a very beautiful thing for me. 11You will always have the poor with you. But you will not always have me. 12This woman poured perfume on my body to prepare me for burial. 13I tell you the truth. The Good News will be told to people in all the world. And in every place where it is preached, what this woman has done will be told. And people will remember her.”
Judas Becomes an Enemy of Jesus
14Then 1 of the 12 followers went to talk to the leading priests. This was the follower named Judas Iscariot. 15He said, “I will give Jesus to you. What will you pay me for doing this?” The priests gave Judas 30 silver coins. 16After that, Judas waited for the best time to give Jesus to the priests.
Jesus Eats the Passover Feast
17On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the followers came to Jesus. They said, “We will prepare everything for you to eat the Passover Feast. Where do you want to have the feast?”
18Jesus answered, “Go into the city to a certain man. Tell him that the Teacher says, ‘The chosen time is near. I will have the Passover Feast with my followers at your house.’” 19The followers did what Jesus told them to do, and they prepared the Passover Feast.
20In the evening Jesus was sitting at the table with his 12 followers. 21They were all eating. Then Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. One of you 12 will turn against me.”
22This made the followers very sad. Each one said to Jesus, “Surely, Lord, I am not the one who will turn against you. Am I?”
23Jesus answered, “The man who has dipped his hand with me into the bowl is the one who will turn against me. 24The Son of Man will die. The Scriptures say this will happen. But how terrible it will be for the person who gives the Son of Man to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”
25Then Judas said to Jesus, “Teacher, surely I am not the one. Am I?” (Judas is the one who would give Jesus to his enemies.)
Jesus answered, “Yes, it is you.”
The Lord’s Supper
26While they were eating, Jesus took some bread. He thanked God for it and broke it. Then he gave it to his followers and said, “Take this bread and eat it. This bread is my body.”
27Then Jesus took a cup. He thanked God for it and gave it to the followers. He said, “Every one of you drink this. 28This is my blood which begins the new# Some Greek copies do not have this word. Compare Luke 22:20. agreement that God makes with his people. This blood is poured out for many to forgive their sins. 29I tell you this: I will not drink of this fruit of the vine# Product of the grapevine; this may also be translated “wine.” again until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
30They sang a hymn. Then they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Jesus’ Followers Will All Leave Him
31Jesus told the followers, “Tonight you will lose your faith because of me. It is written in the Scriptures:
‘I will kill the shepherd,
and the sheep will scatter.’ Zechariah 13:7
32But after I rise from death, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
33Peter said, “All the other followers may lose their faith because of you. But I will never lose my faith.”
34Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. Tonight you will say you don’t know me. You will say this three times before the rooster crows.”
35But Peter said, “I will never say that I don’t know you! I will even die with you!” And all the other followers said the same thing.
Jesus Prays Alone
36Then Jesus went with his followers to a place called Gethsemane. He said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37He told Peter and the two sons of Zebedee to come with him. Then Jesus began to be very sad and troubled. 38He said to Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, “My heart is full of sorrow and breaking with sadness. Stay here with me and watch.”
39Then Jesus walked a little farther away from them. He fell to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, do not give me this cup# Jesus is talking about the bad things that will happen to him. Accepting these things will be very hard, like drinking a cup of something that tastes very bitter. of suffering. But do what you want, not what I want.” 40Then Jesus went back to his followers and found them asleep. Jesus said to Peter, “You men could not stay awake with me for one hour? 41Stay awake and pray for strength against temptation. Your spirit wants to do what is right. But your body is weak.”
42Then Jesus went away a second time. He prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this painful thing to be taken from me, and if I must do it, then I pray that what you want will be done.”
43Then Jesus went back to the followers. Again he found them asleep, because their eyes were heavy. 44So Jesus left them and went away one more time and prayed. This third time he prayed, he said the same thing.
45Then Jesus went back to the followers and said, “You are still sleeping and resting? The time has come for the Son of Man to be given to sinful people. 46Get up. We must go. Here comes the man who has turned against me.”
Jesus Is Arrested
47While Jesus was still speaking, Judas came up. Judas was 1 of the 12 followers. He had many people with him. They had been sent from the leading priests and the elders of the people. They carried swords and clubs. 48Judas had planned to give them a signal. He had said, “The man I kiss is Jesus. Arrest him.” 49At once Judas went to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Teacher!” Then Judas kissed him.
50Jesus answered, “Friend, do the thing you came to do.”
Then the men came and grabbed Jesus and arrested him. 51When that happened, one of Jesus’ followers reached for his sword and pulled it out. The follower struck the servant of the high priest with the sword and cut off his ear.
52Jesus said to the man, “Put your sword back in its place. All who use swords will be killed with swords. 53Surely you know I could ask my Father, and he would give me more than 12 armies of angels. 54But this thing must happen this way so that it will be as the Scriptures say.”
55Then Jesus said to the crowd, “You came to get me with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal. Every day I sat in the Temple teaching. You did not arrest me there. 56But all these things have happened so that it will be as the prophets wrote.” Then all of Jesus’ followers left him and ran away.
Jesus Before the Leaders
57Those men who arrested Jesus led him to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. The teachers of the law and the Jewish elders were gathered there. 58Peter followed Jesus but did not go near him. He followed Jesus to the courtyard of the high priest’s house. He sat down with the guards to see what would happen to Jesus.
59The leading priests and the Jewish council tried to find something false against Jesus so that they could kill him. 60Many people came and told lies about him. But the council could find no real reason to kill Jesus. Then two people came and said, 61“This man said, ‘I can destroy the Temple of God and build it again in three days.’”
62Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Aren’t you going to answer? Don’t you have something to say about their charges against you?” 63But Jesus said nothing.
Again the high priest said to Jesus, “You must swear to this. I command you by the power of the living God to tell us the truth. Tell us, are you the Christ, the Son of God?”
64Jesus answered, “Yes, I am. But I tell you, in the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of God, the Powerful One. And you will see him coming in clouds in the sky.”
65When the high priest heard this, he was very angry. He tore his clothes and said, “This man has said things that are against God! We don’t need any more witnesses. You all heard him say these things against God. 66What do you think?”
The people answered, “He is guilty, and he must die.”
67Then the people there spit in Jesus’ face and beat him with their fists. Others slapped Jesus. 68They said, “Prove to us that you are a prophet, you Christ! Tell us who hit you!”
Peter Says He Doesn’t Know Jesus
69At that time, Peter was sitting in the courtyard. A servant girl came to him and said, “You were with Jesus, that man from Galilee.”
70But Peter said that he was never with Jesus. He said this to all the people there. Peter said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
71Then he left the courtyard. At the gate, another girl saw him. She said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
72Again, Peter said that he was never with Jesus. Peter said, “I swear that I don’t know this man Jesus!”
73A short time later, some people standing there went to Peter. They said, “We know you are one of those men who followed Jesus. We know this because of the way you talk.”
74Then Peter began to curse. He said, “May a curse fall on me if I’m not telling the truth. I don’t know the man.” After Peter said this, a rooster crowed. 75Then he remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you don’t know me.” Then Peter went outside and cried painfully.
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