Day 2: Monday, March 23

Matthew 26:14-25. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, going unto the chief priests, said, What do you will to give me, and I will deliver Him up unto you? And they established with him thirty pieces of silver. And from then on he sought an opportunity that he might betray Him.

And on the first day of the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where willest Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Passover? And He said, Go ye into the city to a man, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near; I will do the Passover at thy house with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and prepared the Passover.

And when it became evening, He sat with the twelve. And as they were eating, He said, Amen I say to you, that one of you shall betray Me. And sorrowing exceedingly, they began to say to Him, every one of them, Is it I, Lord? And He answering, said, He who dips the hand with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me. The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for him if that man had not been born. And Judas, who was betraying Him, answering, said, Is it I, Rabbi? He says to him, Thou hast said.

Arcana Coelestia 9807:10. That “the Son of man was to suffer, and to be put to death” (Matt. 17:12, 23; 20:18; 26:2, 24, 45; Mark 8:31; 9:12, 31; and elsewhere), involves that such was the treatment of Divine truth, and consequently of the Lord, who was the Divine truth itself.

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