(And immediately) in the early morning, having made a plan, the chief priests with the elders and the scholars that is the whole Sanhedrin, having bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. 

And Pilate asked him: ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’

But he answered him: ‘So you are saying.’ 

And the chief priests accused him of many things. 

But Pilate again asked him: ‘You are answering nothing, are you? Look, how many things they accuse you of.’

But Jesus replied nothing, so that Pilate was amazed.

Take from us,
O God, all pride and vanity,
all boasting and self-assertion,
and give us the true courage that shows itself in gentleness,
the true wisdom that shows itself in simplicity,
and the true power that shows itself in modesty.

Charles Kingsley

And Peter being below in the courtyard, one of the slave girls of the chief priest came and having seen Peter warming himself, looked straight at him and said: ‘You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus.’ 

He denied him saying: ‘I do not know or understand what you are saying.’

And he went out to the gateway. And a  cock crowed. 

And the slave girl saw him and again began to say to the bystanders that ‘This man is one of them.’ But again he continued to deny him. 

And again bystanders at a distance said to Peter ‘ Truly  you are one of them, for you a Galilean.’

He began to curse (Jesus?) and swear an oath: ‘ I do not know this man, who you speak about.’

And immediately the cock crowed a second time. Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said to him : ‘Before the cock crowed twice, three times you will deny me.’

And he broke down and cried. 

O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee,
the life of the souls that love thee,
and the strength of the wills that serve thee;
help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee;
so to love thee that we may fully serve thee,
whom to serve is perfect freedom.
Amen

And they took Jesus away to the Chief Priest, and all the chief priests, and elders and scholars met together. 

And Peter followed him from a distance right into the courtyard of the Chief Priest and he sat with the guards, and they were warming themselves from the fire. 

The Chief Priests and all the Sanhedrin were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, and they did not find anything.  For many people bore false witness against him, and the testimonies were not in agreement. And certain people having stood up bore false witness against him saying ‘We heard him saying that “I will tear down this sanctuary made by human hands and I will build another not built by human hands within three days.”’

And yet their testimony was not in agreement.

And the Chief Priest having stood up in the middle, asked Jesus: ‘You are answering nothing, are you? What are these people testifying about you?’

But he was silent and did not answer at all. 

Again the Chief Priest asked him: ‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?’

But Jesus said: ‘ I am, 

And you will see the Son of Man, 

Seated at the right hand of the Power, 

and coming with the clouds of heaven.’

The Chief Priest, having torn his clothes, said: ‘Why do we still need witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy.  What is your decision?’

All of them condemned him as deserving death. 

And some of them began
to spit on him,
and blindfold him
and punch him
and say to him : ‘Prophesy!’,
and the soldiers took him and  beat him.

God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.

And immediately while he was speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scholars and the elders. 

The betrayer had given a sign to them, saying ‘Whoever I kiss is him,  seize  him and lead him away under guard.’

And having come, immediately  having approached him, he said to him ‘Rabbi’ and he kissed him. 

And having laid hands on him, they arrested him. 

But a certain one of the bystanders having drawn a sword, struck the slave of the High Priest and cut off his ear. 

Jesus responded : ‘Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me, as against a brigand? Each day I was teaching you in the temple precinct and you did not seize me. But (this has happened) so that the scriptures might be fulfilled.  And everyone having deserted him, ran away. 

And a young man, one who was following, who was wearing a linen garment on his skin- they seized him. 

But he having left behind the linen garment, ran away in his bare skin.

Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Alcuin

And they came to the land which is named Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples:

‘Sit here, while I pray.’

And he took along with him Peter and Jacob and John and he began to be very distressed and troubled. And he said to them: ‘My soul is deeply sad, death approaches. Stay here and be alert.’

And going on a little way he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour would pass from him.

And he said: ‘Abba, Father, all things are possible for you.  Take away this cup from me. But not what I desire but what you do.‘

And he came and found them sleeping., and he said to Peter ‘Simon, are you asleep? You have strength to keep alert for one hour, don’t you?  (You three) keep alert and pray, so that you will not come to testing. The spirit is willing, but the flesh weak. ‘

And again having gone away, he prayed the same prayer. 

And again having come, he found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know how to answer him. 

And a third time he came and said to them: ‘Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough. For the hour has come
– look the Son of Man is being handed over into the hands of the sinners. ‘Get up! Let us go. -look my betrayer has come near!’

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

And Jesus said to them: Everyone will turn away , because it is written:

“I will strike down the shepherd,
And the sheep will be scattered.”

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.’

But Peter said to him:

‘Even though everyone turns away, certainly I will not.’

And Jesus said to him:

‘Truly I say to you, that you will deny me today three times – this night before the cock crows twice.’

But Peter said emphatically : ‘If it is necessary for me to die with you, I will not deny you.’ 

Everyone spoke in the same way.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

And as they were eating, having taken and blessed (God for )the bread he broke it: and gave it to them, and said:

‘Take, this is my body.’

And having taken the cup and given thanks (for it), he gave it to them and all of them drank from it, and he said to them:

‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.’

‘Truly I say to you, that I will never drink again from the fruit of the vine,
until that day when I will drink it, new, in the Kingdom of God.’

And having sung, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert

And when evening came he went with his disciples. And when they were reclining and eating, Jesus  said: ‘Truly I say to you that one of you, who is eating with me,  will hand me over. 

They began to be sad, and say to him, one after another, ‘Surely it is not me?’.

He said to them: ‘One the twelve, one who dips (bread) with me in the dish. Because the Son of Man will go away as it is written about him, and woe to that one through whom the Son of Man is handed over; it would be better for that one if they had not been born.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

And on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him:
‘Where do you want us to go that we might prepare in order that you might eat the Passover meal?’

And he sent two of his disciples  and said to them:
‘Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jar will meet you, follow him and wherever he enters say to the house owner :
“The Teacher says ‘Where is my guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?’

And he will show you a large furnished upstairs room, ready, And there, prepare (the meal) for us.”

And the disciples went out and entered the city and they found it just as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

And the disciples went out and entered the city and they found it just as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

It was two days before  the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and the Chief Priests and the Scholars were seeking how, having arrested him,  they might kill him, with deceit.  For they said ‘Not during the Feast, otherwise there will be a riot among the people.’ 

And he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, reclining at the table, when a woman came, having an alabaster jar of nard perfume – pure and expensive. Having broken the jar, she poured it on his head. 

Some were angry with her: ‘Why did this waste of perfume happen? For this perfume was able to be to be sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor?’ And they scolded her.

But Jesus said: ‘Leave her. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them. Me you do not always have. What she was able to do, she did. She anointed my body for burial beforehand. Truly I say to you, wherever the good news is announced in the whole world, what she has done will be spoken in memory of her. 

And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went out to the Chief Priests to hand him over to them. Those who heard were glad and promised to give him silver. And he sought how to hand him over at the right time. 

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius