Matthew 26:14-25

Judas to Betray Jesus

14 ¹Then one of the twelve, whose name was ²Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

15 and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they ³paid him ⁴thirty pieces of silver.

16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity ⁵to betray him.

The Passover with the Disciples

17 ⁶Now on ⁷the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ⁸'The Teacher says, ⁹My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'"

19 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.

20 ¹⁰When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.^[a]

21 And as they were eating, ¹¹he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."

22 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?"

23 He answered, ¹²"He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.

24 The Son of Man goes ¹³as it is written of him, but ¹⁴woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! ¹⁵It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

25 Judas, who would betray him, answered, "Is it I, ¹⁶Rabbi?" He said to him, ¹⁷"You have said so."

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 14-16, see Mark 14:10, 11; Luke 22:3-6; [John 13:2, 27, 30]
• 2. Matthew 10:4; Matthew 27:3; Acts 1:16; [John 6:71; John 12:4]
• 3. Zechariah 11:12; [Genesis 23:16; Jeremiah 32:9]
• 4. Matthew 27:3, 9; Exodus 21:32
• 5. See Matthew 20:18, 19
• 6. For ver. 17-19, see Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13
• 7. Exodus 12:18
• 8. See John 11:28
• 9. [ver. 45; John 7:6, 8, 30; John 8:20; John 13:1; John 17:1]
• 10. For ver. 20-24, see Mark 14:17-21; [Luke 22:14, 21-23; John 13:21-26]
• 11. [John 6:70, 71]
• 12. [John 13:18]
• 13. ver. 54, 56; Mark 9:12; Luke 18:31; Luke 24:25-27, 46; Acts 17:2, 3; Acts 26:22, 23; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Peter 1:10, 11
• 14. Matthew 18:7
• 15. John 17:12
• 16. ver. 49; See John 1:38
• 17. ver. 64; See Luke 22:70

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts add disciples