22. While they were eating,
Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples,
saying, "Take it; this is my body."
23. Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they
all drank from it.
24. "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,"
he said to them.
25. "I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of
the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."
26. When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
27. "You will all fall away," Jesus told them, "for it
is written: "`I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'
28. But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."
29. Peter declared, "Even if all fall away, I will not."
30. "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "today--yes,
tonight--before the rooster crows twice you yourself will disown me three
times."
31. But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I have to die with
you, I will never disown you." And all the others said the same.
29. For those God foreknew
he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who
can be against us?
32. He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how
will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
33. Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is
God who justifies.
34. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who
was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us.
35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship
or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?