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Then will he say also to them on his left hand: Go from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the Calumniator and his angels,

And it came to pass, when Jesus had concluded all these discourses, that he said to his disciples:

And when his disciples saw [fn] they were displeased, and said: Why is this waste?

And his disciples did as Jesus directed them, and made ready the Passover.

And when it was evening, he reclined with his twelve disciples.

And he answered and said: One that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he will betray me.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake; and gave to his disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.

Then said Jesus to them: Ye will all be offended in me this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of his flock will be dispersed.

Then came Jesus with them to a place called Gethsemane: and he said to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray.

And retiring a little, he fell on his face, and prayed, and said: My Father, if it can be so, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I choose, but as thou.

And he came to his disciples, and found them asleep: and he said to Cephas: So! could ye not watch with me one hour?

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them: Sleep on now, and take rest. Behold, the hour is come: and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And lo, one of them with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and said: Behold, he hath blasphemed! Why therefore should we seek for witnesses? Behold, ye have now heard his blasphemy.

Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and others smote him,

And as the president was sitting on his tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered much this I day in a dream because of him.

And Pilate, when he saw that it availed nothing, but rather that tumult was produced, took water, and washed his hands before the eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from the blood of this just man: see ye to it.

And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!

And they wove a crown of thorns, and set it on his head, and [fn] a reed in his hand, and they bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, and said: Hail, thou king of the Jews.

And they spit in his face, and took the reed, and smote him on his head.