A House Divided Cannot Stand

Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts—

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.”

But He answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to Him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

Then His disciples answered Him, “How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?”

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have no bread.”

But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?

The Plot to Kill Jesus

After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death.

Jesus Celebrates the Passover with His Disciples

Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”

Jesus Institutes the Lord’s Supper

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”