Mark 14:12–31

PREPARATION FOR PASSOVER

12 Onw the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb,x his disciplesy asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare the Passover so that you may eat it?”

13 So he sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacherz says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” 16 So the disciplesaa went out, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

BETRAYAL AT THE PASSOVER

17 Whenab evening came, he arrived with the Twelve.ac 18 While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”

19 They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, “Surely not I?”

20 He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve—the one who is dipping bread in the bowl with me. 21 For the Son of Manad will go just as it is writtenae about him,af but woeag to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”

THE FIRST LORD’S SUPPER

22 Asah they were eating, he took bread,ai blessed and brokeaj it, gave it to them,ak and said, “Take it; this is my body.”al 23 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks,am he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant,A,an which is poured outao for many.ap 25 Truly I tell you,aq I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vinear until that day when I drink it newB,as in the kingdom of God.”at

26 After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.au

PETER’S DENIAL PREDICTED

27 Thenav Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away,C because it is written:aw

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheepax will be scattered.D,ay

28 But after I have risen,az I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”ba

29 Peterbb told him, “Even if everyone falls away, I will not.”

30 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”bc

31 But he kept insisting, “If I have to die with you, I will never deny you.” And they all said the same thing.