where two prominent members of the Twelve, Peter and John, were sent by Jesus to prepare the supper. Surely it is the one who reclines. Lit. “is it not the one reclining?” Jesus answers his first rhetorical question with another one, again summarizing the normal mode of estimation—a mode which his next comment will correct. Yet I am here among you as the one who serves. So the Lucan Jesus sums up his own life and ministry. Possibly his words mean that he is actually serving the Passover meal. Though