마태복음 Chapter 26

Translation: ESV

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"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

Key Message

Jesus goes to the cross as the new Passover lamb, fully conscious of his role and willingly fulfilling the ancient pattern of redemptive sacrifice.

▸Jesus makes his final and most explicit passion prediction, and uniquely links it directly to the Passover.

Jesus makes his final and most explicit passion prediction, and uniquely links it directly to the Passover. The verb 'will be delivered up' (παραδίδοται) is present tense in Greek — the betrayal and crucifixion are already underway in the divine economy. The Passover lamb of Exodus 12 prefigured exactly this moment: Jesus is the new Passover lamb, consciously moving toward his sacrificial death.

Related Verses

For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

Key Message

Extravagant devotion to Jesus — what the world calls waste — is recognized by him as beautiful and eternally significant.

▸In Bethany, a woman pours extraordinarily expensive ointment (nard, worth about 300 denarii — a year's wages) on Jesus' head.

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Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.

Key Message

Genuine devotion to Jesus — though the world may mock it as waste — is honored by God with permanent, universal remembrance.

▸Jesus declares that this woman's act will be remembered wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world — an extraordinary honor.

26

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

Key Message

The Lord's Supper is the new Passover — Jesus' body broken for our exodus from sin — to be celebrated in memory of him until he returns.

▸The institution of the Lord's Supper.

27

And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you,

Key Message

The Eucharistic cup is the cup of the new covenant, and all disciples are invited and commanded to share in it.

▸Jesus takes the cup and, after giving thanks (εὐχαριστήσας — the word from which 'Eucharist' derives), commands all to drink.

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for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Key Message

Jesus' blood is the blood of the new covenant, poured out to achieve the forgiveness of sins that the old covenant could only foreshadow.

▸Jesus interprets the cup as 'my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

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Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there and pray."

Key Message

In the face of the cross, Jesus' first and decisive response is prayer — establishing the pattern for every disciple facing deep trial.

▸After the supper, Jesus leads his disciples to Gethsemane ('oil press'), a garden on the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives.

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And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."

Key Message

Genuine prayer holds together honest human petition and absolute surrender to God's will — Jesus models both without suppressing either.

▸This prayer is the supreme model of Christian prayer.

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Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Key Message

Jesus compassionately acknowledges human weakness and prescribes the remedy: watchful prayer that bridges the gap between a willing spirit and a weak flesh.

▸Finding the disciples asleep, Jesus gives them a pastoral and practical instruction: 'Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.

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While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.

Key Message

Jesus' arrest was accomplished through the collaboration of an insider's betrayal and institutional religious power — the deepest wounds come from those closest.

▸Just as Jesus finishes his prayer, Judas arrives leading an armed crowd sent by the religious establishment.

49

And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him.

Key Message

The deepest betrayal uses the forms of love as its instrument — a sobering warning about the corruption that hypocrisy can reach.

▸Judas uses the traditional gesture of a disciple's greeting — a kiss (κατεφίλησεν) — as the predetermined signal to identify Jesus for arrest in the darkness.

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Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Key Message

Even on trial before the highest human court, Jesus does not surrender his divine identity — he is the Son of Man enthroned at God's right hand.

▸Before the Sanhedrin, asked whether he is the Son of God, Jesus gives a guarded affirmation ('You have said so') and then makes his most direct messianic declaration to date, combining Daniel 7:13 (Son of Man coming on clouds) with Psalm 110:1 (seated at God's right hand).

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And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.

Key Message

Bitter tears of genuine repentance after failure are the beginning of restoration — not the end of the story.

▸After his three denials (vv.