13 Amen I say to you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be reported for a memory of her.📜💬📚

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

14 Then went one of the Twelve, which was called Judas Iscarioth, to the chief Priests,📜💬📚

15 & said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver.📜💬📚

16 And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.📜💬📚

Preparing the Passover

17 And the first day of the Azymes the Disciples came to JESUS saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Pasche?📜💬📚

18 But JESUS said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: The Master saith, my time is at hand, with thee do I make the Pasche with my Disciples.📜💬📚

19 And the Disciples did as JESUS appointed them, and they prepared the Pasche.📜💬📚

Last Supper

20 But when it was even, he sat down with his twelve Disciples.📜💬📚

21 And while they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you, that one of you shall betray me.📜💬📚

22 And they being very sad, began every one to say: Is it I Lord?📜💬📚

23 But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me.📜💬📚

24 The Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were good for him, if that man had not been born.📜💬📚

25 And Judas that betrayed him, answering said: Is it I Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said.📜💬📚

26 And whiles they were at supper, JESUS took bread, and blessed, and brake: and he gave to his Disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat: THIS IS MY BODY.📜💬📚

27 And taking the chalice, he gave thanks: and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this.📜💬📚

28 FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR MANY UNTO REMISSION OF SINS.📜💬📚

29 And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the Kingdom of my Father.📜💬📚

30 And an hymn being said, they went forth unto Mount-olivet.📜💬📚

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

31 Then JESUS saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me in this night. For it is written: I will strike the Pastor, and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed.📜💬📚

32 But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.📜💬📚

33 And Peter answering, said to him: Although all shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized.📜💬📚

34 JESUS said to him: Amen I say to thee, that in this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.📜💬📚

35 Peter saith to him: Yea though I should die with thee, I will not deny thee. Likewise also said all the Disciples.📜💬📚

Jesus Prays at Gethsemane

36 Then JESUS cometh with them into a village called Gethsemani: and he said to his Disciples: Sit you here till I go yonder, and pray.📜💬📚

37 And taking to him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to wax sorrowful and to be sad.📜💬📚

38 Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay here, and watch with me.📜💬📚

39 And being gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou.📜💬📚

40 And he cometh to his Disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter: Even so? Could you not watch one hour with me?📜💬📚

41 Watch ye, & pray that ye enter not into tentation. The Spirit in deed is prompt, but the flesh weak.📜💬📚

42 Again the second time he went, and prayed, saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass, but I must drink it, thy will be done.📜💬📚

43 And he cometh again, and findeth them sleeping, for their eyes were become heavy.📜💬📚

44 And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word.📜💬📚

45 Then he cometh to his Disciples, and saith to them: Sleep ye now and take rest. Behold the hour approacheth, and the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.📜💬📚

46 Rise, let us go: behold he approacheth that shall betray me.📜💬📚

Betrayal of Jesus

47 As he yet spake, behold Judas one of the Twelve came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief Priests and the ancients of the people.📜💬📚

48 And he that betrayed him, gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he, hold him.📜💬📚

49 And forthwith coming to JESUS, he said: Hail Rabbi. And he kissed him.📜💬📚

50 And JESUS said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they drew near, and laid hands on JESUS, and held him.📜💬📚

51 And behold one of them that were with JESUS, stretching forth his hand, drew out his sword; and striking the servant of the high Priest, cut off his ear.📜💬📚

52 Then JESUS saith to him: Return thy sword into his place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.📜💬📚

53 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of Angels?📜💬📚

54 How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done?📜💬📚

55 In that hour JESUS said to the multitudes: You are come out as it were to a thief, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hands on me.📜💬📚

56 And all this was done, that the scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then the Disciples all leaving him, fled.📜💬📚

Jesus before the Sanhedrin

57 But they taking hold of JESUS, led him to Caiphas the high Priest, where the Scribes and ancients were assembled.📜💬📚

58 And Peter followed him a far off, even to the court of the high Priest. And going in he sat with the servants, that he might see the end.📜💬📚

59 And the chief Priests and the whole Council sought false witness against JESUS, that they might put him to death:📜💬📚

60 and they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses;📜💬📚

61 and they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and after three days to re-edify it.📜💬📚

62 And the high Priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou nothing to the things which these do testify against thee?📜💬📚

63 But JESUS held his peace. And the high Priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be Christ the Son of God.📜💬📚

64 JESUS saith to him: Thou hast said. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of Heaven.📜💬📚

65 Then the high Priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed, what need we witnesses any further? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy;📜💬📚

66 how think you? But they answering said: He is guilty of death.📜💬📚

67 Then did they spit on his face, and buffeted him, & other smote his face with the palms of their hands,📜💬📚

68 saying: Prophesy unto us O Christ; who is he that strook thee?📜💬📚

Peter Denies Jesus

69 But Peter sat without in the court; and there came to him one wench, saying: Thou also wast with JESUS the Galilean.📜💬📚

70 But he denied before them all, saying: I wot not what thou sayest.📜💬📚

71 And as he went out of the gate, an other wench saw him, and she saith to them that were there: And this fellow also was with JESUS the Nazarite.📜💬📚

72 And again he denied with an oath: That I know not the man.📜💬📚

73 And after a little they came that stood by, and said to Peter: Surely thou also art of them: for even thy speech doth bewray thee.📜💬📚

74 Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And incontinent the cock crew.📜💬📚

75 And Peter remembered the word of JESUS which he had said: Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept bitterly.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

Matthew 26 📜 📕 ↷

Plot to Kill Jesus

Jesus Anointed at Bethany