Preparation for Passover

⁷ Then^(A) the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.^{(B) 8} Jesus sent Peter and John,^(C) saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”

⁹ “Where do you want us to prepare it?” they asked him.

¹⁰ “Listen,” he said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters. ¹¹ Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ ¹² Then he will show you a large, furnished room upstairs.^(D) Make the preparations there.”

¹³ So they went and found it just as he had told them,^(E) and they prepared the Passover.

The First Lord’s Supper

¹⁴ When^(F) the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. ¹⁵ Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶ For I tell you, I will not eat it again^[a] until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”^{(G) 17} Then he took a cup,^(H) and after giving thanks,^(I) he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

¹⁹ And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body,^(J) which is given for you. Do this in remembrance ^(K) of me.”

²⁰ In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant^(L) in my blood,^(M) which is poured out for you.^{[b] 21} But^(N) look, the hand of the one betraying me is at the table with me.^{(O) 22} For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined,^(P) but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”