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For to every person who has something, even more will be given, and he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing, even the little that he has will be taken away from him.

As for this useless servant—throw him outside in the darkness; there he will cry and gnash his teeth.'

Then the King will say to the people on his right, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.

The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!'

"Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

"This perfume could have been sold for a large amount and the money given to the poor!"

Jesus knew what they were saying, and so he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? It is a fine and beautiful thing that she has done for me.

What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial.

From then on Judas was looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Where do you want us to get the Passover meal ready for you?"

The Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will, but how terrible for that man who will betray the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

"this is my blood, which seals God's covenant, my blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Then Jesus said to them, "This very night all of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, ‘God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Then he returned to the three disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "How is it that you three were not able to keep watch with me for even one hour?

Then he returned to the disciples and said, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look! The hour has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to the power of sinners.

Don't you know that I could call on my Father for help, and at once he would send me more than twelve armies of angels?

said, "Prophesy for us, Messiah! Guess who hit you!"

After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: "They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

At every Passover Festival the Roman governor was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the crowd asked for.