The Last Supper
Mark 14:12-31; Matthew 26:26-30; Luke 22:14-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
'I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'
At the beginning of the Jewish Passover, Jesus gathered his twelve
disciples together so that they could share a meal. While they were
together, Jesus predicted that one of them would soon betray him. He would soon
be arrested. But although this was the last meal Jesus and the disciples would
eat together on earth, they would be able to remember him by sharing wine and
eating bread, blessing it just as he had done.
People like to eat together. Why? Does it matter that recent statistics show
50% of children and young people do not sit down regularly to a meal with their
families?
Find out about the ways in which different groups of Christians commemorate
the last (or Lord's) supper. What do the different ways show about what they
believe?
Why were Jesus's disciples so desperately upset when he said that one of
them would betray him?
© Culham
College Institute 1998
