and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

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

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

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.”

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

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.

Above his head they put the charge against him, which read: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

“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!

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink.

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

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.

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

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.

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

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.