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You will always have poor people with you, and any time you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
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She did what she could; she poured perfume on my body to prepare it ahead of time for burial.
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Now, I assure you that wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
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Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Jesus to them.
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They were pleased to hear what he had to say, and promised to give him money. So Judas started looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.
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On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the day the lambs for the Passover meal were killed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and get the Passover meal ready for you?"
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Then Jesus sent two of them with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him
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to the house he enters, and say to the owner of the house: "The Teacher says, Where is the room where my disciples and I will eat the Passover meal?'
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Then he will show you a large upstairs room, fixed up and furnished, where you will get everything ready for us."
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The disciples left, went to the city, and found everything just as Jesus had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.
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When it was evening, Jesus came with the twelve disciples.
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While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you that one of you will betray me - one who is eating with me."
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The disciples were upset and began to ask him, one after the other, "Surely you don't mean me, do you?"
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Jesus answered, "It will be one of you twelve, one who dips his bread in the dish with me.
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The Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will; but how terrible for that man who will betray the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"
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While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. "Take it," he said, "this is my body."
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Then he took a cup, gave thanks to God, and handed it to them; and they all drank from it.
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Jesus said, "This is my blood which is poured out for many, my blood which seals God's covenant.
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I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I drink the new wine in the Kingdom of God."
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Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Jesus said to them, "All of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, "God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will all be scattered.'
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But after I am raised to life, I will go to Galilee ahead of you."
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Peter answered, "I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!"
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Jesus said to Peter, "I tell you that before the rooster crows two times tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me."
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Peter answered even more strongly, "I will never say that, even if I have to die with you!" And all the other disciples said the same thing.