He told them, "This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.

I tell all of you with certainty, I'll never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

He came back a third time. "Are you still sleeping and resting?" he asked. "Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Then he broke down and cried.

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

because he knew that the high priests had handed him over due to jealousy.

The soldiers led Jesus into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters) and called out the whole guard.

It was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Since it was already evening,

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he let Joseph have the corpse.

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

But go and tell his disciples especially Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

When they heard that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, they refused to believe Mary.

These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,

Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.