It is Wednesday of Passion Week and Jesus and His disciples have just celebrated the Passover a day earlier than would the religious leaders. God in His providence had orchestrated this by the ambiguous sighting of the new moon during that particular month in history, in order that Jesus might both assign a new and…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion Week and Jesus has just finished celebrating the Passover feast with His disciples a day earlier than the official celebration observed by the religious leaders. This is no different from what happens on occasion even today when Muslims in different areas celebrate Ramadan on different days depending on what…
After announcing that one of them would betray Him and instituting the Lord’s Supper, Jesus and His disciples sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. On the way He shared with them that according to the prophetic word, they would all fall away from Him that evening as He, their Shepherd,…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion week and Jesus has just finished His last Passover with His disciples a day earlier than the religious leaders would celebrate the feast. During the meal He announced to His disciples that it was one of them who would betray Him. Also during the celebration He established the Lord’s…
After numerous predictions that He would be delivered up to the Jewish leaders and then handed over to the Romans to be crucified, Jesus shocked His disciples during the last supper that it would be one of them who would betray Him. Matthew also notes of particular significance that evening His institution of the Lord’s…
Jesus is in the upper room celebrating His last Passover with His disciples. During the supper Jesus assumed the role of a servant and washed the feet of the disciples (Joh 13:1-17), and the disciples argued again about which of them was the greatest (Luk 22:24-27; cf. Luk 9:46-48, Mat 20:20,24-27). Jesus also taught them…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion week and Jesus has just completed the Passover celebration with His disciples in a large upper room that accommodated guests during the annual Jewish feasts, and which may very well have belonged to the family of John Mark, author of our second gospel; see Mar 14:13-15, Luk 22:7-12, Act…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion Week and Jesus is celebrating the Passover with His disciples a day earlier than the religious leaders in Jerusalem. For the sighting of the New Moon that would have occurred fourteen days earlier is not always clear and can be ambiguous and subjective, leading to the discrepancy. Since Jesus…
At the Last Supper Jesus bid all His disciples to drink from the third cup, the cup of redemption, saying “For this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” Recall that a covenant and a will or testament are closely related, with the same Greek…
At the Last Supper Jesus spoke of the wine that was shared in remembrance of the Jewish nation’s deliverance from their bondage in Egypt, “This is my blood of the covenant that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”. For as we have seen, forgiveness of sins is inseparably related to our…