Old/New Testament
The Last Supper
22 The time came for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, known as Passover. 2 The chief priests and the scribes looked for a way to assassinate Jesus, a difficult task because of the crowds.
3 The satan entered into Judas, whose surname was Iscariot, who was one of the company of the Twelve. 4 He went and held a meeting with the chief priests and officers, to discuss how he might hand Jesus over. 5 They were delighted, and promised to pay him. 6 He agreed, and started to look for an opportunity to hand him over to them when the crowds weren’t around.
7 The day of Unleavened Bread arrived, the day when people had to kill the Passover lamb. 8 Jesus dispatched Peter and John.
“Off you go,” he said, “and get the Passover ready for us to eat.”
9 “Where d’you want us to prepare it?” they asked him.
10 “Listen carefully,” said Jesus. “As you go into the city a man will meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him, and when he goes into a house, go after him. 11 Then say to the householder there, ‘The teacher says, “Where is the living-room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’ 12 And he will show you a large upstairs room, laid out and ready. Make the preparations there.”
13 So they went and found it as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
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.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.