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Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said:

‘How much will you give me if I hand him over to you?’

They promised to give him thirty pieces of silver,

and from that moment he kept looking for the best way to hand Jesus over to them.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you?”

Jesus answered, “Go into the city, to the house of a certain man, and tell him, ‘The Master says:

My hour is near and I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples in your house.’”

The disciples did as Jesus had ordered and prepared the Passover meal.

When evening came, Jesus sat at the table with the Twelve.

While they were eating, Jesus said:

“Truly, I say to you: one of you will betray me.”

They were deeply distressed and asked him, one after the other:

“You do not mean me, do you, Lord?”

He answered:

“The one who dips his bread with me will betray me.

The Son of Man is going as the Scriptures say he will. But alas for the one who betrays the Son of Man: it would have been better for him not to have been born.

Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked:

“You do not mean me, Master, do you?”

Jesus replied:

“You have said it.”