After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Betrayed

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

As they were meeting in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”

“He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.

Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples.

General references

“The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near.