Didascalia Apostolorum

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98 DIDASCALIA. feast-day, lest there be an uproar of the people," because every one was Cf. Matt, attaching himself to Him and they held Him to be a Prophet, on account of the wonders that He wrought amongst them. But Jesus was in that day in the house of Simeon the leper, and we were together with Him ; He also related to us about what was to happen. But Judas f. 63 b had gone out from among us in secret, on that Monday1, hoping to deceive Matt.xxvi. our Lord ; and he went to the house of Kaipha, where the High-priests and elders were assembled, and he said to them, " What will ye give me, and I will deliver my Lord unto you, when I have opportunity ? " And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And he said to them, "Get ready young men armed because of His disciples" (S. + that if he should go out by night to a desert place, I may come and lead you ; then they prepared the young men, and were ready to take Him). But Judas watched when he could find opportunity to betray Him, (S. + because of the crowds of all the people who had come from every city and every village, up to the temple 2 to keep the Passover in Jerusalem). And the priests and elders (S. + considered and) commanded (S. + and decreed) that they should keep the feast with haste, that they might take Him without tumult ; for the people of Jerusalem were occupied in the sacrifice and the eating of the Passover, and all the people from without had not yet come, because they deceived them [about] the days, that they might be reproved before God that they were greatly mistaken in everything. So they anticipated and kept the Passover three days earlier, in the eleventh of the moon on Tuesday ; for they said, because that all the people go astray after Him, now that we have the opportunity to take Him ; and then when all the people have come, we will kill Him before all men for His fault, and this will be known openly, and all the people will turn from after Him. Thus in the night (S. + when Wednesday dawned) Judas delivered up our Lord, but they had given the reward to Judas when he covenanted with them (S. + on the tenth of the moon) on Monday. There- fore it was considered by God, as if they had taken Him from Monday (S. + because that on Monday they consulted how-to take Him and to kill Cf. EX. xii. Him), and they accomplished their deed on Friday, as it was said in the Book of Exodus, "The Passover shall be kept by you from the tenth to the fourteenth, (S. + on marg., now pay great attention) and then all Israel shall keep the Passover." Therefore from the tenth day, which is Monday, during the days of the Passover, ye shall fast, and be nourished by bread 1 For a translation of Professor Nau's note on this chronology, see Appendix. 2 Probably t^j^ioa^ is a mistake for