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For this is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many, so that they may have their sins forgiven.

He returned to the talmidim and found them sleeping. He said to Kefa, "Were you so weak that you couldn't stay awake with me for even an hour?

Then he came to the talmidim and said, "For now, go on sleeping, take your rest. . . . Look! The time has come for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

At that, one of the men with Yeshua reached for his sword, drew it out and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.

Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword.

The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin looked for some false evidence against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death.

So they decided to use it to buy the potter's field as a cemetery for foreigners.

Then what Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke was fulfilled, "And they took the thirty silver coins, which was the price the people of Isra'el had agreed to pay for him,

It was the governor's custom during a festival to set free one prisoner, whomever the crowd asked for.

So when a crowd had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to set free for you? Bar-Abba? or Yeshua, called ‘the Messiah'?"

For he understood that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.

But the head cohanim persuaded the crowd to ask for Bar-Abba's release and to have Yeshua executed on the stake.

"Which of the two do you want me to set free for you?" asked the governor. "Bar-Abba!" they answered.

On hearing this, some of the bystanders said, "He's calling for Eliyahu."

He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an angel of Adonai came down from heaven, rolled away the stone and sat on it.

But the angel said to the women, "Don't be afraid. I know you are looking for Yeshua, who was executed on the stake.

"The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert prepare the way for Adonai ! Make straight paths for him!'"

As he walked beside Lake Kinneret, he saw Shim‘on and Andrew, Shim‘on's brother, casting a net into the lake; for they were fishermen.

Yeshua said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you into fishers for men!"