Luke 22:14-30

New Testament for Everyone

¹⁴ When the time came, Jesus sat down at table with the apostles.

¹⁵ “I have been so much looking forward to eating this Passover with you before I have to suffer,” he said to them. ¹⁶ “For—let me tell you—I won’t eat it again until it’s fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

¹⁷ Then he took a cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ Let me tell you, from now on I won’t drink from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

¹⁹ Then he took some bread. He gave thanks, broke it and gave it to them.

“This is my body,” he said, “which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

²⁰ So too, after supper, with the cup: “This cup,” he said, “is the new covenant, in my blood which is shed for you.

²¹ “But look here! Someone here is going to betray me. His hand is with mine at this table. ²² The son of man is indeed going, as it is marked out for him; but woe betide that man by whom he is betrayed!”

²³ They began to ask each other which of them was going to do this.

Prediction of Peter’s denial

²⁴ A quarrel began among them: which of them would be seen as the most important?

²⁵ “Pagan kings lord it over their subjects,” said Jesus to them, “and people in power get themselves called ‘Benefactors.’ ²⁶ That’s not how it’s to be with you. The most important among you ought to be like the youngest. The leader should be like the servant. ²⁷ After all, who is the more important, the one who sits at table or the one who waits on him? The one at table, obviously! But I am with you here like a servant.

²⁸ “You are the ones who have stuck it out with me through the trials I’ve had to endure. ²⁹ This is my bequest to you: the kingdom my father bequeathed to me! ³⁰ What does this mean? You will eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.