ned with the chief
priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them. And they
were glad, and they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And from
that time he sought opportunity to deliver him unto them in the
absence of the multitude.

WEDNESDAY--THE DAY OF RETIREMENT

[There is no record of the events of this day. Jesus spent it in
retirement, almost certainly in the home of his friends at Bethany.]

THURSDAY--THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP

PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER.

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the
passover, his disciples say unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and
make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?"

And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, "Go into the
city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water;
follow him; and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of
the house, 'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand. Where is my
guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?' And
he will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready: and
there make ready for us."

And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he
had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

STRIFE AMONG THE DISCIPLES.

And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve. And there arose
also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be
greatest. And he said unto them, "The kings of the Gentiles have
lordship over them; and they that have authority over them are called
Benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among
you, let him become as the younger: and he that is chief, as he that
doth serve. For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am in the midst of you
as he that serveth. But ye are they that have continued with me in my
temptations; and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father
appointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my
kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel."

JESUS WASHING THE DISCIPLES' FEET.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was
come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having
loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jes