During the Jewish Passover celebration four ritual cups of wine were shared. These cups were associated with four aspects of the Lord’s deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt described in Exo 6:6-7, which deliverance also typified the fuller salvation of His people from sin. As the third cup recalled how the Lord redeemed the…
At Jesus’ last Passover with His disciples He announced that one of them closest to Him would betray Him, and instituted the Lord’s Supper. We have seen that the bread He broke was much more than just a symbol of His physical body that was given for them; it was also a symbol of His…
During Jesus’ last Passover celebration, at which He announced that one of those closest to Him sharing its communion would betray Him, He imparted a much fuller meaning to the cups of wine that were shared as part of the meal, which were already a reminder of how the Lord brought the Jews out from…
The gospels of Matthew and Mark mention only one cup that was shared during the Lord’s Supper, and even a second cup mentioned by Luke is perhaps better understood as providing additional information about the cup he mentioned first to emphasize to the new Gentile churches the ordinance’s purpose of looking forward to an even…
After numerous predictions that He would be delivered up for crucifixion, during the Passover celebration with His disciples on Wednesday of Passion Week Jesus shocked His disciples with the pronouncement that it would be one of them eating at His table and sharing His communion who would betray Him. While they were eating Jesus also…
During Jesus’ Last Supper with His disciples He both announced His betrayal by one of them and instituted the Lord’s Supper by which to remember Him and His sacrifice. The two events are closely related because the bread which He gave to them symbolizing His body was also partaken of by Judas who betrayed Him…
On Wednesday of Passion Week Jesus was celebrating His last Passover with the disciples. Later that evening He would be arrested and led to crucifixion, having been betrayed by one of those with whom He broke bread at this meal. It was unfathomable to the disciples that one of them would do such a thing,…
If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion Week. Earlier that day the disciples had followed Jesus’ instructions to prepare the Passover meal at what may have been the home of John Mark, author of the second gospel. Matthew and Mark have emphasized that during the meal Jesus revealed that not only would He be delivered up…
After predicting for some time that He would be delivered up to the religious leaders to be put to death, here at the Last Supper Jesus has shocked His disciples that He would actually be betrayed by one of them who was closest to Him. His pronouncement deeply grieved them, and caused varying degrees of…