Mark 14:12-25

New Testament for Everyone

The Last Supper

¹² On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lambs were sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where would you like us to go and get things ready for you to eat the Passover?”

¹³ He sent off two of his disciples, with these instructions.

“Go into the city, and you will be met by a man carrying a water-pot. Follow him. ¹⁴ When he goes indoors, say to the master of the house, ‘The teacher says, where is the guest room for me, where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹⁵ He will show you a large upstairs room, set out and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

¹⁶ The disciples went out, entered the city, and found it exactly as he had said. They prepared the Passover.

¹⁷ When it was evening, Jesus came with the Twelve. ¹⁸ As they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “I’m telling you the truth: one of you is going to betray me—one of you that’s eating with me.”

¹⁹ They began to be very upset, and they said to him, one after another, “It isn’t me, is it?”

²⁰ “It’s one of the Twelve,” said Jesus, “one who has dipped his bread in the dish with me. ²¹ Yes: the son of man is completing his journey, as scripture said he would; but it’s bad news for the man who betrays him! It would have been better for that man never to have been born.”

²² While they were eating, he took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them.

“Take it,” he said. “This is my body.”

²³ Then he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

²⁴ “This is my blood of the covenant,” he said, “which is poured out for many. ²⁵ I’m telling you the truth: I won’t ever drink from the fruit of the vine again, until that day—the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”