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 So the two disciples went on ahead into the city and found
everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover supper there.
In the evening Jesus arrived
with the twelve disciples. As they were sitting around the table eating, Jesus
said,
"The truth is, one of you will betray Me, one of you who is here eating
with Me."
Greatly distressed, one by one
they began to ask Him, "I'm not the one, am I?" He replied:
"It is one of you twelve, one who is eating with Me now. For I, the Son
of Man, must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will
be for My betrayer. Far better for him if he had never been born!"
As they were eating, Jesus took
a loaf of bread and asked God's blessing on it. Then He broke it in pieces and
gave it to the disciples, saying:
"Take it, for this is My body."
And He took a cup of wine and
gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and they all drank from it. And
He said to them:
"This is My blood, poured out for many, sealing the covenant between God
and His people. I solemnly declare that I will not drink wine again until that
day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God."
Then they sang a hymn and went
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