1 Dali a dois dias, era a Páscoa e a Festa dos Pães Asmos; e os principais sacerdotes e os escribas procuravam como o prenderiam, à traição, e o matariam. 2 Pois diziam: Não durante a festa, para que não haja tumulto entre o povo.
3 Estando ele em Betânia, reclinado à mesa, em casa de Simão, o leproso, veio uma mulher trazendo um vaso de alabastro com preciosíssimo perfume de nardo puro; e, quebrando o alabastro, derramou o bálsamo sobre a cabeça de Jesus. 4 Indignaram-se alguns entre si e diziam: Para que este desperdício de bálsamo? 5 Porque este perfume poderia ser vendido por mais de trezentos denários e dar-se aos pobres. E murmuravam contra ela. 6 Mas Jesus disse: Deixai-a; por que a molestais? Ela praticou boa ação para comigo. 7 Porque os pobres, sempre os tendes convosco e, quando quiserdes, podeis fazer-lhes bem, mas a mim nem sempre me tendes. 8 Ela fez o que pôde: antecipou-se a ungir-me para a sepultura. 9 Em verdade vos digo: onde for pregado em todo o mundo o evangelho, será também contado o que ela fez, para memória sua.
10 E Judas Iscariotes, um dos doze, foi ter com os principais sacerdotes, para lhes entregar Jesus. 11 Eles, ouvindo-o, alegraram-se e lhe prometeram dinheiro; nesse meio tempo, buscava ele uma boa ocasião para o entregar.
12 E, no primeiro dia da Festa dos Pães Asmos, quando se fazia o sacrifício do cordeiro pascal, disseram-lhe seus discípulos: Onde queres que vamos fazer os preparativos para comeres a Páscoa? 13 Então, enviou dois dos seus discípulos, dizendo-lhes: Ide à cidade, e vos sairá ao encontro um homem trazendo um cântaro de água; 14 segui-o e dizei ao dono da casa onde ele entrar que o Mestre pergunta: Onde é o meu aposento no qual hei de comer a Páscoa com os meus discípulos? 15 E ele vos mostrará um espaçoso cenáculo mobilado e pronto; ali fazei os preparativos. 16 Saíram, pois, os discípulos, foram à cidade e, achando tudo como Jesus lhes tinha dito, prepararam a Páscoa.
17 Ao cair da tarde, foi com os doze. 18 Quando estavam à mesa e comiam, disse Jesus: Em verdade vos digo que um dentre vós, o que come comigo, me trairá. 19 E eles começaram a entristecer-se e a dizer-lhe, um após outro: Porventura, sou eu? 20 Respondeu-lhes: É um dos doze, o que mete comigo a mão no prato. 21 Pois o Filho do Homem vai, como está escrito a seu respeito; mas ai daquele por intermédio de quem o Filho do Homem está sendo traído! Melhor lhe fora não haver nascido!
22 E, enquanto comiam, tomou Jesus um pão e, abençoando-o, o partiu e lhes deu, dizendo: Tomai, isto é o meu corpo. 23 A seguir, tomou Jesus um cálice e, tendo dado graças, o deu aos seus discípulos; e todos beberam dele. 24 Então, lhes disse: Isto é o meu sangue, o sangue da [nova] aliança, derramado em favor de muitos. 25 Em verdade vos digo que jamais beberei do fruto da videira, até àquele dia em que o hei de beber, novo, no reino de Deus. 26 Tendo cantado um hino, saíram para o monte das Oliveiras.
27 Então, lhes disse Jesus: Todos vós vos escandalizareis, porque está escrito:
Ferirei o pastor, e as ovelhas ficarão dispersas.
28 Mas, depois da minha ressurreição, irei adiante de vós para a Galileia. 29 Disse-lhe Pedro: Ainda que todos se escandalizem, eu, jamais! 30 Respondeu-lhe Jesus: Em verdade te digo que hoje, nesta noite, antes que duas vezes cante o galo, tu me negarás três vezes. 31 Mas ele insistia com mais veemência: Ainda que me seja necessário morrer contigo, de nenhum modo te negarei. Assim disseram todos.
32 Então, foram a um lugar chamado Getsêmani; ali chegados, disse Jesus a seus discípulos: Assentai-vos aqui, enquanto eu vou orar. 33 E, levando consigo a Pedro, Tiago e João, começou a sentir-se tomado de pavor e de angústia. 34 E lhes disse: A minha alma está profundamente triste até à morte; ficai aqui e vigiai. 35 E, adiantando-se um pouco, prostrou-se em terra; e orava para que, se possível, lhe fosse poupada aquela hora. 36 E dizia: Aba, Pai, tudo te é possível; passa de mim este cálice; contudo, não seja o que eu quero, e sim o que tu queres. 37 Voltando, achou-os dormindo; e disse a Pedro: Simão, tu dormes? Não pudeste vigiar nem uma hora? 38 Vigiai e orai, para que não entreis em tentação; o espírito, na verdade, está pronto, mas a carne é fraca. 39 Retirando-se de novo, orou repetindo as mesmas palavras. 40 Voltando, achou-os outra vez dormindo, porque os seus olhos estavam pesados; e não sabiam o que lhe responder. 41 E veio pela terceira vez e disse-lhes: Ainda dormis e repousais! Basta! Chegou a hora; o Filho do Homem está sendo entregue nas mãos dos pecadores. 42 Levantai-vos, vamos! Eis que o traidor se aproxima.
43 E logo, falava ele ainda, quando chegou Judas, um dos doze, e com ele, vinda da parte dos principais sacerdotes, escribas e anciãos, uma turba com espadas e porretes. 44 Ora, o traidor tinha-lhes dado esta senha: Aquele a quem eu beijar, é esse; prendei-o e levai-o com segurança. 45 E, logo que chegou, aproximando-se, disse-lhe: Mestre! E o beijou. 46 Então, lhe deitaram as mãos e o prenderam. 47 Nisto, um dos circunstantes, sacando da espada, feriu o servo do sumo sacerdote e cortou-lhe a orelha. 48 Disse-lhes Jesus: Saístes com espadas e porretes para prender-me, como a um salteador? 49 Todos os dias eu estava convosco no templo, ensinando, e não me prendestes; contudo, é para que se cumpram as Escrituras. 50 Então, deixando-o, todos fugiram.
51 Seguia-o um jovem, coberto unicamente com um lençol, e lançaram-lhe a mão. 52 Mas ele, largando o lençol, fugiu desnudo.
53 E levaram Jesus ao sumo sacerdote, e reuniram-se todos os principais sacerdotes, os anciãos e os escribas. 54 Pedro seguira-o de longe até ao interior do pátio do sumo sacerdote e estava assentado entre os serventuários, aquentando-se ao fogo. 55 E os principais sacerdotes e todo o Sinédrio procuravam algum testemunho contra Jesus para o condenar à morte e não achavam. 56 Pois muitos testemunhavam falsamente contra Jesus, mas os depoimentos não eram coerentes. 57 E, levantando-se alguns, testificavam falsamente, dizendo: 58 Nós o ouvimos declarar: Eu destruirei este santuário edificado por mãos humanas e, em três dias, construirei outro, não por mãos humanas. 59 Nem assim o testemunho deles era coerente. 60 Levantando-se o sumo sacerdote, no meio, perguntou a Jesus: Nada respondes ao que estes depõem contra ti? 61 Ele, porém, guardou silêncio e nada respondeu. Tornou a interrogá-lo o sumo sacerdote e lhe disse: És tu o Cristo, o Filho do Deus Bendito? 62 Jesus respondeu: Eu sou, e vereis o Filho do Homem assentado à direita do Todo-Poderoso e vindo com as nuvens do céu. 63 Então, o sumo sacerdote rasgou as suas vestes e disse: Que mais necessidade temos de testemunhas? 64 Ouvistes a blasfêmia; que vos parece? E todos o julgaram réu de morte. 65 Puseram-se alguns a cuspir nele, a cobrir-lhe o rosto, a dar-lhe murros e a dizer-lhe: Profetiza! E os guardas o tomaram a bofetadas.
66 Estando Pedro embaixo no pátio, veio uma das criadas do sumo sacerdote 67 e, vendo a Pedro, que se aquentava, fixou-o e disse: Tu também estavas com Jesus, o Nazareno. 68 Mas ele o negou, dizendo: Não o conheço, nem compreendo o que dizes. E saiu para o alpendre. [E o galo cantou.] 69 E a criada, vendo-o, tornou a dizer aos circunstantes: Este é um deles. 70 Mas ele outra vez o negou. E, pouco depois, os que ali estavam disseram a Pedro: Verdadeiramente, és um deles, porque também tu és galileu. 71 Ele, porém, começou a praguejar e a jurar: Não conheço esse homem de quem falais! 72 E logo cantou o galo pela segunda vez. Então, Pedro se lembrou da palavra que Jesus lhe dissera: Antes que duas vezes cante o galo, tu me negarás três vezes. E, caindo em si, desatou a chorar.
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble you her? she has worked a good work on me.
7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.
8 She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them.
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said to him, Where will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the passover?
13 And he sends forth two of his disciples, and said to them, Go you into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
14 And wherever he shall go in, say you to the manager of the house, The Master said, Where is the guest room, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said to them: and they made ready the passover.
17 And in the evening he comes with the twelve.
18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you which eats with me shall betray me.
19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
20 And he answered and said to them, It is one of the twelve, that dips with me in the dish.
21 The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
25 Truly I say to you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
27 And Jesus said to them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
29 But Peter said to him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
30 And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, you shall deny me thrice.
31 But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with you, I will not deny you in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he said to his disciples, Sit you here, while I shall pray.
33 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
34 And said to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry you here, and watch.
35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.
37 And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleep you? could not you watch one hour?
38 Watch you and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither knew they what to answer him.
41 And he comes the third time, and said to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42 Rise up, let us go; see, he that betrays me is at hand.
43 And immediately, while he yet spoke, comes Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
45 And as soon as he was come, he goes straightway to him, and said, Master, master; and kissed him.
46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
48 And Jesus answered and said to them, Are you come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
50 And they all forsook him, and fled.
51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
56 For many bore false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
57 And there arose certain, and bore false witness against him, saying,
58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
60 And the high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, saying, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?
61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said to him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
62 And Jesus said, I am: and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and said, What need we any further witnesses?
64 You have heard the blasphemy: what think you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there comes one of the maids of the high priest:
67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked on him, and said, And you also were with Jesus of Nazareth.
68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what you say. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.
70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely you are one of them: for you are a Galilaean, and your speech agrees thereto.
71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom you speak.
72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said to him, Before the cock crow twice, you shall deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.