026:018 "Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him, `The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'" 026:019 The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready. 026:020 When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples, 026:021 and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me." 026:022 Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?" 026:023 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me. 026:024 The Son of Man is indeed going as is written concerning Him; but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been a happy thing for that man if he had never been born." 026:025 Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied. 026:026 During the meal Jesus took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it: it is my body." 026:027 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, "Drink from it, all of you; 026:028 for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for the remission of sins--the blood which ratifies the Covenant. 026:029 I tell you that I will never again take the produce of the vine till that day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom." 026:030 So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. 026:031 Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, `I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.' 026:032 But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee." 026:033 "All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will." 026:034 "In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me." 026:035 "Even if I must die with you," declared Peter, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested all the disciples. 026:036 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, "Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray." 026:037 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress, 026:038 and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me." 026:039 Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest."