22 ¹ NOW THE FESTIVAL of Unleavened Bread, known as Passover, was approaching, 22 ² and the chief priests and the doctors of the law were trying to devise some means of doing away with him; for they were afraid of the people.

22 ³ Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve; 22 ⁴ and Judas went to the chief priests and officers of the temple police to discuss ways and means of putting Jesus into their power. 22 ⁵ They were greatly pleased and undertook to pay him a sum of money. 22 ⁶ He agreed, and began to look out for an opportunity to betray him to them without collecting a crowd.