Luke 22:6-28

⁶So Judas assented, and looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them, in the absence of a crowd.

⁷When the day of the Festival of the unleavened bread came, on which the Passover lambs had to be killed,

⁸Jesus sent forward Peter and John, saying to them, “Go and make preparations for our eating the Passover.”

⁹“Where do you wish us to make preparations?” they asked.

¹⁰“Listen,” he answered, “when you have got into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into whatever house he enters;

¹¹and you will say to the owner of the house ‘The teacher says to you — Where is the room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?’

¹²The man will show you a large upstairs room, set out; there make preparations.”

¹³So Peter and John went on, and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

¹⁴When the time came, Jesus took his place at the table, and the apostles with him.

¹⁵“I have most earnestly wished,” he said, “to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

¹⁶For I tell you that I will not eat it again, until it has had its fulfilment in the kingdom of God.”

¹⁷Then, on receiving a cup, after saying the thanksgiving, he said, “Take this and share it amongst you.

¹⁸For I tell you that I will not, after today, drink of the juice of the grape, until the kingdom of God has come.”

¹⁹Then Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and gave to them, with the words, “This is my body.

²¹ Yet see! The hand of the man who is betraying me is beside me on the table!

²²True, the Son of Man is passing, by the way ordained for him, yet alas for that man by whom he is being betrayed!”

²³Then they began questioning one another which of them it could be who was going to do this.

²⁴And a dispute arose amongst them as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

²⁵Jesus, however, said, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their oppressors are styled ‘Benefactors.’

²⁶But with you it must not be so. No, let the greatest amongst you become like the youngest, and him who leads like him who serves.

²⁷Which is the greater — the master at the table or his servant? Is not it the master at the table? Yet I myself am amongst you as one who serves.

²⁸You are the men who have stood by me in my trials;