Luke 22:7-23
The Last Supper
7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
9 “Where do you want us to prepare for it?” they asked.
10 He replied, “As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, 11 and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 12 He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there.”
13 They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 21 But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed. But woe to that man who betrays him!” 23 They began to question among themselves which of them it might be who would do this.
When Jesus told His Disciples in John 14:15, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."...This verse suggests that remembering Jesus involves following His teachings and living according to His example...And this tells us that we are to remember to follow His Teachings and use Him as a Way to live life according His Ways and His Truths, as He lived His Life...He is our Great Example...But He does not come out and say remember Him, and we are to keep His commandments...And Jesus wants us to remember Him when we eat in our daily routine...
Jesus makes it clear that when He eats His Last Supper with His Disciples, we are to remember Him, and it is when we eat each day...He says in His Last Meal when He took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke the bread and gave it to His Disciples, saying, "This is My Body given for you...Do this in remembrance of Me."...And so when we eat and drink we are to remember Him...
Jesus' Last Supper which was done on Maundy Thursday is described by Anglican priest and author Tish Harrison Warren: “Of all the things He could've chosen to be done "in remembrance" of Him, Jesus chose a meal...He could have asked His followers to do something impressive or mystical--climb a mountain, fast for forty days, or have a trippy sweat lodge ceremony--but instead He picks the most ordinary of acts, eating, through which to be present to his people...He says that the bread is His body and the wine is His blood...He chooses the unremarkable and plain, average and abundant, bread and wine.”...
Bishop Fulton Sheen also wrote this about Jesus' Last Supper on Maundy Thursday and the First Good Friday...It was a command that Jesus tells us to remember Him...Sheen wrote: “If then Death was the supreme moment for which Christ lived, it was therefore the one thing He wished to have remembered...He did not ask that men should write down His Words into a Scripture; He did not ask that His kindness to the poor should be recorded in history; but He did ask that men remember His Death...And in order that it’s memory might not be any hap-hazard narrative on the part of men, He Himself instituted the precise way it should be recalled...The memorial was instituted the night before He died, at what has since been called “The Last Supper.”...Taking bread into His Hands, He said: “This is My Body, which shall be delivered for you,” i.e., delivered unto death...Then over the chalice of wine, He said, “This is My Blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.”...Thus in an unbloody symbol of the parting of the Blood from the Body, by the separate consecration of Bread and Wine, did Christ pledge Himself to death in the sight of God and men, and represent His Death which was to come the next afternoon at three...He was offering Himself as a Victim to be immolated, and that men might never forget that “greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” He gave the Divine Command to the Church: “Do this for a commemoration of me.”...
So Jesus' Death on Friday, which is only called Good, because of what would happen on Sunday is a moment of Great Remembrance...His Death on Good Friday gives us the most important historical fact in the history of man, Jesus' Resurrection...When we eat and have our daily bread, our Bread of Live, let us remember Him...