ISAIAH 50:4-9a
“I hid not my face from shame and spitting.”
(Third song of the servant of the LORD)

A Reading from the Book of Isaiah.
⁴ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. ⁵ The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward. ⁶ I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. ⁷ For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore, I have not been confounded; therefore, I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; ⁸ he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. ^9a Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty?

The Word of the LORD.

PSALMS 69:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34 (R. 14c, b)
℟. In Your great mercy, answer me, O God, for a time of Your favour.

⁸ It is for You that I suffer taunts, that shame has covered my face. ⁹ To my brethren, I have become an outcast, a stranger to the children of my mother. ¹⁰ Zeal for Your house has consumed me, and taunts against You have fallen on me.℟.

²¹ Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for solace, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. ²² For food, they gave me gall; and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.℟.

³¹ I will praise the Name of God with a song; I will magnify Him with thanksgiving. ³³ Let the oppressed see it and be glad; and God-seeking hearts, will revive; ³⁴ For the LORD listens to the needy, and does not despise His own that are in bonds.℟.

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℣.Glory and praise to you, O Christ
℟.Glory and praise to you, O Christ
℣.Hail, our King, You alone have had mercy on our failings!
℟.Glory and praise to you, O Christ

MATTHEW 26:14-25
“The Son of man goes, as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed.”

✠ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
At that time: ¹⁴ One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶ And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. ¹⁷ Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?" ¹⁸ He said, "Go into the city to a certain one, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'" ¹⁹ And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. ²⁰ When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve disciples; ²¹ and as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." ²² And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?" ²³ He answered, "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me. ²⁴ The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." ²⁵ Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Is it I, Master?" He said to him, "You have said so."

The Gospel of the LORD.