3-5. At that very moment, the party of high priests and religious leaders was meeting in the chambers of the Chief Priest named Caiaphas, conspiring to seize Jesus by stealth and kill him. They agreed that it should not be done during Passover Week. “We don’t want a riot on our hands,” they said.
30. They sang a hymn and went directly to Mount Olives.
31-32. Then Jesus told them, “Before the night’s over, you’re going to fall to pieces because of what happens to me. There is a Scripture that says,I’ll strike the shepherd;helter-skelter the sheep will be scattered.But after I am raised up, I, your Shepherd, will go ahead of you, leading the way to Galilee.”
33. Peter broke in, “Even if everyone else falls to pieces on account of you, I won’t.”
34. “Don’t be so sure,” Jesus said. “This very night, before the rooster crows up the dawn, you will deny me three times.”