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And the holiday of therf loaves, that is said pask, approached. [+Forsooth the holy day of therf loaves, which is said pask, came nigh.]
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And the princes of priests and the scribes sought, how they should slay Jesus, but they dreaded the people.
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And Satan entered into Judas, that was called Iscariot, one of the twelve.
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And he went, and spake with the princes of priests, and with the magistrates, how he should betray him to them.
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And they joyed, and made covenant to give him money.
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And he promised, and he sought opportunity, to betray him, without the people. [And he promised, and he sought covenability, that he should betray him, without the companies.]
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But the days of therf loaves came, in which it was need, that the sacrifice of pask were slain [in which it was need, that pask, that is, the sacrifice of pask, be slain].
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And he sent Peter and John, and said [saying], Go ye, and make ready to us the pask, that we eat.
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And they said, Where wilt thou, that we make ready?
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And he said to them, Lo! when ye shall enter into the city, a man bearing a vessel of water shall meet you; follow ye him into the house, into which he entereth.
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And ye shall say to the husbandman of the house, The master saith to thee, Where is a chamber [Where is the harbourgerie], where I shall eat the pask with my disciples?
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And he shall show to you a great supping place strewed, and there make ye ready.
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And they went, and found as he said to them, and they made ready the pask.
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And when the hour was come, he sat to the meat [he sat to meat], and the twelve apostles with him.
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And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat with you this pask, before that I suffer;
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for I say to you, that from this time I shall not eat it, till it be fulfilled in the realm of God.
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And when he had taken the cup, he did graces [he did thankings], and said, Take ye, and part ye among you;
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for I say to you, that I shall not drink of the kind of this vine [soothly I say to you, I shall not drink of the generation of this vine], till the realm of God come.
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And when he had taken bread, he did thankings, and brake, and gave to them, and said, This is my body, that shall be given for you; do ye this thing in mind of me. [And the bread taken, he did graces, or thankings, and brake, and gave to them, saying, This is my body, which shall be given for you; do ye this thing into my commemoration, or into mind of me.]
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He took also the cup, after that he had supped, and said, This cup is the new testament in my blood, that shall be shed for you. [Also and the chalice, after that he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.]
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Nevertheless lo! the hand of him that betrayeth me, is with me at the table.
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And [soothly] man's Son goeth, as it is determined; nevertheless woe to that man, by whom he shall be betrayed.
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And they began to seek among them[selves], who it was of them, that was to do this thing.
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And strife was made among them, which of them should be seen to be greatest.
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But he said to them, Kings of heathen men be lords of them, and they that have power on them be called good doers, [Forsooth he said to them, Kings of heathen men be lords, or lordship, of them, and they that have power upon them be called good doers,]
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but ye not so; but he that is greatest among you, be made as a younger [be made as the younger], and he that is [a] before-goer, as a servant.
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For who is greater, he that sitteth at the meat, or he that ministereth? whether not he that sitteth at the meat? And I am in the middle of you [Forsooth I am in the midst of you], as he that ministereth.
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And ye [it] be, that have dwelled with me in my temptations; [Soothly ye it be that have dwelt with me in my temptations;]
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and I assign to you, as my Father hath assigned to me, a realm, [and I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a realm,]
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that ye eat and drink on my board in my realm, and sit on thrones, and deem the twelve kindreds of Israel [deeming the twelve kindreds of Israel].
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And the Lord said to Simon, Simon, lo! Satan hath asked (for) you, that he should riddle you as wheat;
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but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and thou sometime converted [and thou converted sometime], confirm thy brethren.
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Which said to him, Lord, I am ready to go into prison and into death with thee. [Which said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, and into prison and into death.]
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And he said, I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow to day, till thou thrice forsake that thou knowest me.
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And he said to them, When I sent you without satchel, and scrip, and shoes, whether any thing failed to you? And they said, Nothing.
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Therefore he said to them, But now he that hath a satchel, take also and a scrip; and he that hath none [and he that hath not], sell his coat, and buy a sword.
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For I say to you, that yet it behooveth that thing [this thing] that is written to be fulfilled in me, And he is areckoned with wicked men; for those things that be of me have an end.
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And they said, Lord, lo! two swords here. And he said to them, It is enough.