New International Reader's Version

Mark 14:23-29 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

23. Then he took the cup. He gave thanks and handed it to them. All of them drank from it.

24. "This is my blood of the new covenant," he said to them. "It is poured out for many.

25. What I'm about to tell you is true. I won't drink wine with you again until the day I drink it in God's kingdom."

26. Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

27. "You will all turn away," Jesus told the disciples. "It is written, " 'I will strike the shepherd down. Then the sheep will be scattered.' (Zechariah 13:7)

28. But after I rise from the dead, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."

29. Peter said, "All the others may turn away. But I will not."