NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Matthew 26:21

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As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

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Matthew 26:18–24

18

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”

19

The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

20

Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

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As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

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They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

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He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

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The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

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