Thursday, April 17, 2003

Mark 14:12-25 (NRSV)

Read Mark 14:12-25 on biblegateway.com

Verse ¹²On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?" Verse ¹³So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, Verse ¹⁴and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' Verse ¹⁵He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there." Verse ¹⁶So the disciples set out and went to the city, and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.

Verse ¹⁷When it was evening, he came with the twelve. Verse ¹⁸And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me." Verse ¹⁹They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, "Surely, not I?" Verse ²⁰He said to them, "It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. Verse ²¹For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born."

Verse ²²While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." Verse ²³Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. Verse ²⁴He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Verse ²⁵Truly I tell you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."