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.
23 Then the apostles asked each other, “Which one of us would do that?”
Jesus ate His Last Supper on Maundy Thursday with His Disciples...St. Luke writes of the Passover meal and the Last Supper in this way: The Day of Unleavened Bread had come... This was the day when the Jews always killed the lambs for the Passover...Jesus said to Peter and John, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us to eat.”...They said to Him, “Where do you want us to prepare the meal?”...He said to them, “When you go into the city, you will see a man carrying a jar of water...Follow him...He will go into a house...Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks that you please show us the room where he and his followers can eat the Passover meal.’...Then the owner will show you a large room upstairs that is ready for us...Prepare the meal there.”...So Peter and John left...Everything happened the way Jesus said...So they prepared the Passover meal...The time came for them to eat the Passover meal...Jesus and the apostles were together at the table...Jesus said to them, “I wanted very much to eat this Passover meal with you before I die...I will never eat another Passover meal until it is given its full meaning in God’s kingdom.”...Then Jesus took a cup of wine...He gave thanks to God for it and said, “Take this cup and give it to everyone here...I will never drink wine again until God’s kingdom comes.”...Then He took some bread and thanked God for it...He broke off some pieces, gave them to the apostles and said, “This bread is My body that I am giving for you...Eat this to remember me.”...In the same way, after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine and said, “This wine represents the new agreement from God to His people...It will begin when My blood is poured out for you.”...Jesus said, “But here on this table is the hand of the one who will hand Me over to My enemies...The Son of Man will do what God has planned...But it will be very bad for the one who hands over the Son of Man to be killed.”...Then the apostles asked each other, “Which one of us would do that?”...
Bishop Fulton Sheen wrote this of Jesus' Last Supper: “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.”...