Mark 14:12-26
The Lord's Supper
12On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
13So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 15He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."
16The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me."
19They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely not I?"
20"It is one of the Twelve," he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
22While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."
23Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.
24"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them. 25"I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."
26When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
On the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (this feast is sometimes used interchangeably with the Passover) the disciples were with Jesus...This meal was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb (there is symbolism here, that Jesus is our Passover lamb, and He will be sacrificed to save us...His body will be our bread of the Passover meal, and His blood will be our drink at the Passover meal)...The disciples ask Him where did He want them want to go to make preparations for the Passover meal?...Jesus sent two of His disciples to the city to meet a man carrying a jar of water (Jesus knows all, and He knew the two would see a man carrying a jar of water)...He said follow the man with the jar...Say to the owner of the house that the jar carrying man enters, that "The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?...He will show you a large furnished, upper room, that is ready...Make preparations for us there."...The disciples left and found those things just as their Teacher had told them...So they prepared the Passover meal there...
The LORD's Supper is to be remembered and a time for remembering Jesus when we eat and drink each day...
This was the night of Jesus' Last Supper...When evening came Jesus arrived with the Twelve...While they were eating, Jesus said one of the Twelve would betray Him...They were saddened and one by one they said surely it is not I...Jesus says that it is one who dips his bread into the bowl with Me...But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man...It would be better for him, if he had not been born...
While they were eating, Jesus took the bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave it to His disciples, saying, "Take it, this is My body."...Then He took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them... They all drank from it...He said "this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out to many ...I tell you the truth, I will not drink from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God."...
Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives....
Jesus knows all things that are to come to pass...Jesus calls Himself the Good Shepherd, but He is also the Sacrificial Lamb in the flock...Jesus will go to the cross, as the Passover lamb goes to slaughter...Death was soon to come to Jesus...His Last Supper would be for many, and not just for the Twelve...The bread the Twelve ate, He says is His body...The wine the Twelve drank He says is His blood...His death would be a covenant with His disciples and His followers for a new beginning a new Passover, a new Feast..So when we eat and drink we can be reminded of Him, and think about Him...
Jesus' death is the new covenant...He died for us...We are the ones who cause His death...Sin caused His death...His death and the new covenant does not give us an excuse to sin...We are still guilty...Jesus loves us and will forgive us..He loved Judas and would forgive Judas, but it is woe to Judas, for it was better for him, if he were not born...We must continue to get closer to Jesus, to follow Him and to repent, and to do our best...Like the taxpayer looking to heaven praying, we must pray: God to have mercy on me, I am a sinner (Luke 18:13)...
The LORD's Supper teaches us the He is our bread of life and our living water...Those that follow Him and come to Him shall never hunger; and those that believe in Him shall never thirst (John 6.35)...