Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all the disciples said the same thing.

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour?

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”

While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.