80 Jesus Has a Last Supper with His Friends [Mark 14:12–26]
80 Jesus Has a Last Supper with His Friends [Mark 14:12–26]
The Story:
Headed toward Jerusalem, on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare the Passover meal?”
He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city. You will meet a man carrying a water jug. Follow him. Ask the owner of the house that he enters, ‘Where is the guest room for The Teacher to eat the Passover?’ He will show you a large furnished room upstairs, ready for use. Make the preparations for us there.”
The disciples went out, entered the city, and found everything just as He had told them.
When evening came, He arrived with the Twelve.
While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “One of you who is eating with Me will betray Me!”
They were distressed and one by one said to Him, “Surely not I?”
He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve - the one who is dipping bread with Me in the bowl. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to the man who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
As they were eating, He took bread, blessed it and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take and eat this bread; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup of wine, and after giving thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
He said to them, “This is My blood that establishes the new covenant. It is shed for many. I assure you: I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in the kingdom of God.”
After singing psalms, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
The Lessons:
- The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a seven-day Jewish festival that follows Passover, during which only unleavened bread is eaten to commemorate the Israelites’ hasty departure from Egypt.
- Passover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the sacrifice of a lamb to protect the Israelites from the death angel, which led to the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. 8 The Ten Plagues
- Communion is celebrated by Christians to commemorate the Last Supper.
- In biblical times, the act of reclining was a common posture during meals and social gatherings. Reclining at meals was a practice adopted from Greco-Roman customs, where diners would lie on couches around a low table, leaning on their left elbow and eating with their right hand.
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