13 - King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford

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Chapter thirteen of The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter thirteen
The Last Night. It was Thursday. On Friday afternoon, the
lambs would be killed for the Passover, and on Friday
evening all good Jews would sit down to eat the

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lambs at the Passover feast. The disciples wondered where Jesus
was planning to celebrate the feast with them, But Jesus
did not wait until Friday to have a meal with
all his disciples. On Thursday, he sent two of them
into Jerusalem from Bethany. He told them the name of
a man to whom they were to go. Go to

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this man, said Jesus, and tell him that I said
that the time has come. He will show you where
we are going to have supper tonight. Then you can
get the supper ready. That evening, Jesus and the twelve
disciples met together at the house in Jerusalem on the
second floor. There was a room where food was spread

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upon a table. As they were eating supper, Jesus suddenly spoke,
one of you is a trader. Every one stopped eating,
and each one of the twelve disciples thought of his
own sins. Each one wondered if he were loyal enough
to Jesus. Each one cried out, Master, is it I?

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Jesus only answered, it is one of you, twelve men
eating with me. Now. It would have been better for
that trader if he had never been born. A moment later,
Judas Iscariot slipped quietly out of the door. The other
disciples did not know where he had gone. Jesus spoke again,
I wanted so much to eat the Passover feast with

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you this year before I suffer. But I shall not
eat it again with you until a better day, when
we shall all be together once more. He took a
piece of bread and said a prayer of thanks to God.
Then he broke the bread and passed the pieces among
the disciples, only eleven of them. Now he said words

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that they did not understand. Take this and eat. This
is my body. He took a cup of wine, and
once more he gave thanks. Then he passed the cup
among the disciples, saying, drink, all of you, drink of
this wine. It is my blood which I am going
to shed, so that the sins of many people may

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be forgiven. And in the days to come do this
same thing, often, always remembering me. Then they sang a
hymn together and walked out into the night air and
went up to the Mount of Olives. As they walked,
Jesus said to the disciples, you will all desert me

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to night, for it is written in the scriptures that
when something happens to the shepherd, the sheep will go
away in all direct actions. However, I shall meet you again.
Peter spoke up and said, bravely, even if everyone else
deserts you, I will not. Jesus answered, before the rooster

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crows at sunrise to tell you that morning has come,
you will have said three times that you do not
even know me. But Peter cried out that even if
he died for it, he would be true to Jesus,
and all the other disciples said the same. Presently they
came to a grove called Guessemone. It was late. Jesus

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said to the disciples, sit here while I go and pray.
He took only Peter and James and John with him
and went a little way apart from the rest. To
the three disciples. He said, I am greatly troubled. I
do not know how I can bear it any longer,
Wait here and stay awake with me. Going a few

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steps farther on, Jesus fell on his knees and began
to pray aloud, Oh, my Father, if it is possible,
take this cup away. Do not let these things happen
to me yet not my will, but thine be done.
When he had prayed this way, he came back to
Peter and James and John. All three were fast asleep.

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Jesus woke Peter up and said, what couldn't you stay
with me for one short hour? Stay awake and pray.
Pray for yourselves. You are going to need strength. You
are not so strong as you want to be. He
left them again and once more fell to his knees
and prayed, O, my Father, if I must suffer these things,

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thy will be done. When he returned, the disciples again
were sleeping. They were too tired to stay awake. A
third time, he went apart from them and prayed. He
prayed in the same words he had used before, and
suddenly he began to feel stronger. He rose from his
knees at last and came back to his disciples. His

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voice broke in upon their sleep. Are you still sleeping. Well,
you've slept long enough. My time is up. I am
going to be turned over to sinners. Now get up,
Look the trader is coming. While he was still speaking,
a crowd of soldiers carrying swords and clubs burst into
the grove. Judas is Scariot was leading them. Judas ran

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to Jesus and kissed him, saying, hail master. Jesus answered, well, friend,
what have you come to do? Then a band of
men laid their hands on Jesus and held him so
he could not escape. Peter was wide awake by now.
He had brought a sword with him. Pulling it out,

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he cut off the ear of a man in the crowd.
Jesus said to Peter, put your sword away. My father
gave me these things to suffer. He would save me
now if I asked him. But that is not the
way it is to be. Then Jesus turned to the
crowd of soldiers and said, have you come to arrest

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me with swords and clubs? As though I were a robber.
Every day I was in the temple teaching, and you
could have taken me then, But you never laid a
hand on me. But this is what the scriptures said
would happen to the Messiah. The disciples could stand no more.
They left Jesus standing there, and in terror they fled away.

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And of chapter thirteen