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Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
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and the High Priests and the Scribes were contriving how to destroy Him. But they feared the people.
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Satan, however, entered into Judas (the man called Iscariot) who was one of the Twelve.
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He went and conferred with the High Priests and Commanders as to how he should deliver Him up to them.
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This gave them great pleasure, and they agreed to pay him.
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He accepted their offer, and then looked out for an opportunity to betray Him when the people were not there.
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When the day of the Unleavened Bread came--the day for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed--
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Jesus sent Peter and John with instructions. "Go," He said, "and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it."
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"Where shall we prepare it?" they asked.
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"You will no sooner have entered the city," He replied, "than you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house to which he goes,
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and say to the master of the house, "`The Rabbi asks you, Where is the room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'
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"And he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. There make your preparations."
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So they went and found all as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.
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When the time was come, and He had taken His place at table, and the Apostles with Him,
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He said to them, "Earnestly have I longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;
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for I tell you that I certainly shall not eat one again till its full meaning has been brought out in the Kingdom of God."