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and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.

And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."

And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?"

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,

And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.

Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,

and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."

And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.

The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas."

And he said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.

And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.