The Life of Jesus

For I have set you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you.

Yes, indeed! I tell you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is an emissary greater than the one who sent him.

If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

“I’m not talking to all of you — I know which ones I have chosen. But the words of the Tanakh must be fulfilled that say, ‘The one eating my bread has turned against me.’

I’m telling you now, before it happens; so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM [who I say I am].

Yes, indeed! I tell you that a person who receives someone I send receives me, and that anyone who receives me receives the One who sent me.”

After saying this, Yeshua, in deep anguish of spirit, declared, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

The talmidim stared at one another, totally mystified — whom could he mean?

One of his talmidim, the one Yeshua particularly loved, was reclining close beside him.

So Shim‘on Kefa motioned to him and said, “Ask which one he’s talking about.”

Leaning against Yeshua’s chest, he asked Yeshua, “Lord, who is it?”

Yeshua answered, “It’s the one to whom I give this piece of matzah after I dip it in the dish.” So he dipped the piece of matzah and gave it to Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on from K’riot.

As soon as Y’hudah took the piece of matzah, the Adversary went into him. “What you are doing, do quickly!” Yeshua said to him.

But no one at the table understood why he had said this to him.

Some thought that since Y’hudah was in charge of the common purse, Yeshua was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or telling him to give something to the poor.

As soon as he had taken the piece of matzah, Y’hudah went out, and it was night.

After Y’hudah had left, Yeshua said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If the Son has glorified God, God will himself glorify the Son, and will do so without delay.

Little children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and, as I said to the Judeans, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ now I say it to you as well.

“I am giving you a new command: that you keep on loving each other. In the same way that I have loved you, you are also to keep on loving each other.

Everyone will know that you are my talmidim by the fact that you have love for each other.”

Shim‘on Kefa said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Yeshua answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow later.”

“Lord,” Kefa said to him, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

Yeshua answered, “You will lay down your life for me? Yes, indeed! I tell you, before the rooster crows you will disown me three times.

“Don’t let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.