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On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you?”
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“As you go into the city,” he told them, “you will see a certain man. Tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time has come, and I will eat the Passover meal with my disciples at your house.’”
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So the disciples did as Jesus told them and prepared the Passover meal there.
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When it was evening, Jesus sat down at the table 1 with the twelve disciples. 2
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While they were eating, he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”
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Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, “Am I the one, Lord?”
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He replied, “One of you who has just eaten from this bowl with me will betray me.
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For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!”
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Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked, “Rabbi, am I the one?”
And Jesus told him, “You have said it.”