Matthew 26:12-25

12She has poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial.

13I tell you the truth, wherever the Good News is preached throughout the world, this woman’s deed will be remembered and discussed.”

14Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests

15and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.

16From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

17On 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?”

18“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.’”

19So the disciples did as Jesus told them and prepared the Passover meal there.

20When it was evening, Jesus sat down at the table with the Twelve.

21While they were eating, he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”

22Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, “Am I the one, Lord?”

23He replied, “One of you who has just eaten from this bowl with me will betray me.

24For 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!”

25Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked, “Rabbi, am I the one?” And Jesus told him, “You have said it.”