Luke 22:7–23

PREPARATION FOR PASSOVER

⁷Then^x the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.^{y 8}Jesus sent Peter and John,^z saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”

⁹“Where do you want us to prepare it?” they asked him.

¹⁰“Listen,” he said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters. ¹¹Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’ ¹²Then he will show you a large, furnished room upstairs.^aa Make the preparations there.”

¹³So they went and found it just as he had told them,^ab and they prepared the Passover.

THE FIRST LORD’S SUPPER

¹⁴When^ac the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. ¹⁵Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶For I tell you, I will not eat it again^B until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”^{ad 17}Then he took a cup,^ae and after giving thanks,^af he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

¹⁹And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body,^ag which is given for you. Do this in remembrance^ah of me.”

²⁰In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant^ai in my blood,^aj which is poured out for you. ²¹But^ak look, the hand of the one betraying me is at the table with me.^{al 22}For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined,^am but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

²³So they began to argue^an among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do it.