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and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,
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and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity to betray Him.
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On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
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"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.'"
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The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.
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When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,
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and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."
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Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?"
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"The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me.
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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."
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Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.