If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 26 as we continue our exposition of the gospel of Matthew. We’ve been in Matthew 26 for a number of weeks now, and we’ve observed a number of themes repeating themselves in this passage that is a prelude to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially beginning with the passage describing the institution of the Lord’s Supper by Jesus. So much of Matthew 26 is preparing you with a pre-understanding of what Christ is going to be doing on the cross. And we’re also seeing, and will especially see in the passage today Christ’s pre-experience of the sufferings of the cross as it were bleeding back into Matthew 26 on the night in which He was betrayed. Let me just outline briefly for you this story so you can…