¹⁷On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples went to Jesus. They asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you?”

¹⁸He said, “Go to a certain man in the city, and tell him that the teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.’ ”

¹⁹The disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

²⁰When evening came, Jesus was at the table with the twelve apostles.

Jesus Knows Who Will Betray Him—Mark 14:18–21; Luke 22:21–23; John 13:21–30

²¹While they were eating, he said, “I can guarantee this truth: One of you is going to betray me.”

²²Feeling deeply hurt, they asked him one by one, “You don’t mean me, do you, Lord?”

²³Jesus answered, “Someone who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. ²⁴The Son of Man is going to die as the Scriptures say he will. But how horrible it will be for that person who betrays the Son of Man. It would have been better for that person if he had never been born.”

²⁵Then Judas, who betrayed him, asked, “You don’t mean me, do you, Rabbi?”

“Yes, I do,” Jesus replied.

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