Mark 14:22–31

²²While they were eating, Jesus took bread. He gave thanks and broke it. He handed it to his disciples and said, “Take it. This is my body.”

²³Then he took the cup. He gave thanks and handed it to them. All of them drank from it.

²⁴“This is my blood of the new covenant,” he said to them. “It is poured out for many. ²⁵What I’m about to tell you is true. I won’t drink wine with you again until the day I drink it in God’s kingdom.”

²⁶Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus Says That Peter Will Fail

²⁷“You will all turn away,” Jesus told the disciples. “It is written,

“ ‘I will strike the shepherd down.

Then the sheep will be scattered.’

²⁸But after I rise from the dead, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

²⁹Peter said, “All the others may turn away. But I will not.”

³⁰“What I’m about to tell you is true,” Jesus answered. “It will happen today, this very night. Before the rooster crows twice, you yourself will say three times that you don’t know me.”

³¹But Peter would not give in. He said, “I may have to die with you. But I will never say I don’t know you.” And all the others said the same thing.