So Jesus arranges for this meal not by announcing the site to all of the twelve, but rather by sending Peter and John, his two closest disciples, to a location not even they know about. Jesus said ‘a man carrying a jar of water will meet you’. How were they to know which man they were to follow—wouldn’t there be thousands of people walking around with pitchers of water? Well, in the ancient world only women carried water in pitchers, whereas men customarily carried water in water skins, so Jesus