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This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii[fn] and the moneythe money">[fn] given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

So the disciples left and went into the city. They found everything just as Jesushe">[fn] had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

They began to be very sad and said to him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

While they were eating, Jesushe">[fn] took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to them, saying, "Take some. This is my body."Matthew 26:26; Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23;">[xr]

Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."Matthew 26:36; Luke 22:39; John 18:1;">[xr]

Again he came back and found them asleep, for their eyes were very heavy. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

Just then, while Jesushe">[fn] was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.Matthew 26:47; Luke 22:47; John 18:3;">[xr]

Then they took Jesus to the high priest. All the high priests, elders, and scribes had gathered together.Matthew 26:57; Luke 22:54; John 18:13;">[xr]

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole CouncilSanhedrin">[fn] were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.Matthew 26:59;">[xr]

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council.Sanhedrin">[fn] They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.Psalm 2:2; Matthew 27:1; Luke 22:66; 23:1; John 18:28; Acts 3:13; 4:26;">[xr]

They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, and placed it on his head.on him">[fn]

They kept hitting him on the head with a stick, spitting on him, kneeling in front of him, and worshiping him.

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

They forced a certain passer-by who was coming in from the country to carry Jesus'his">[fn] cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.Matthew 27:32; Luke 23:26;">[xr]

They crucified two banditsrevolutionaries">[fn] with him, one on his right and the other on his left.on his left">[fn]

They used to accompany him and care for him while he was in Galilee. Many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him were there, too.Luke 8:2-3;">[xr]

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (For it was a very large stone.)