The Life of Jesus

"Now let the fig tree teach you its lesson: when its branches begin to sprout and leaves appear, you know that summer is approaching.

In the same way, when you see all these things happening, you are to know that the time is near, right at the door.

Yes! I tell you that this people will certainly not pass away before all these things happen.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

However, when that day and hour will come, no one knows -- not the angels in heaven, not the Son, just the Father.

Stay alert! Be on your guard! For you do not know when the time will come.

"It's like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.

So stay alert! for you don't know when the owner of the house will come,

whether it will be evening, midnight, cockcrow or morning -- you don't want him to come suddenly and find you sleeping!

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: stay alert!"

It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

for they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

While he was in Beit-Anyah in the home of Shim`on (a man who had had tzara`at), and as he was eating, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfume, pure oil of nard, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume over Yeshua's head.

But some there angrily said to themselves, "Why this waste of perfume?

It could have been sold for a year's wages and given to the poor!" And they scolded her.

But he said, "Let her be. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.

What she could do, she did do -- in advance she poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

Yes! I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."

Then Y'hudah from K'riot, who was one of the Twelve, went to the head cohanim in order to betray Yeshua to them.

They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.

On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua's talmidim asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?"

He sent two of his talmidim with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him;

and whichever house he enters, tell him that the Rabbi says, `Where is the guest room for me, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?'

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations there."