He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”
And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.” And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.” And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”
“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.
If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him.
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