Luke 22:6-28

⁶So he agreed, and they gave him the money. Then he tried to find an opportunity to enable them to seize Jesus when there was no crowd around him.

⁷Then the day during the first part of the week-long festival of Unleavened Bread came, the day when the lambs for the Passover celebration had to be killed.

⁸So Jesus said to Peter and John, “Go and prepare the meal for the Passover celebration.”

⁹They replied to him, “Where do you (sg) want us to prepare it?”

¹⁰He said to the two of them, “Listen carefully. When you two enter the city, a man who is carrying a large jar of water will meet you. Follow him. When he enters a house,

¹¹tell the owner of the house, ‘ Our teacher says that we(exc) should ask you(sg) to please show us the room that he arranged with you where he can eat the Passover meal with us, his disciples RHQ.’

¹²He will show you a large room that is on the upper floor of the house. It will be all set up for a meal. Prepare the meal for us there.”

¹³So the two disciples went into the city. They found everything to be just like Jesus had told them. So they prepared the meal for the Passover celebration there.

¹⁴When it was time MTY to eat the Passover meal, Jesus came and sat down with the twelve apostles.

¹⁵He said to them, “I have greatly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer and die.

¹⁶I want you to know that I will not eat the Passover meal again until all those whose lives God rules completely realize what it represents.”

¹⁷Then he took a cup of wine and thanked God for it. Then he said, “Take this, and each of you drink some of it.

¹⁸I want you to know that from now on I will not drink wine until God makes me king.”

¹⁹Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it into pieces and gave it to them to eat. He said, “This bread represents my body, which I am about to sacrifice for you. Keep on eating bread this way regularly to remember what I have done for you.”

²⁰Similarly, after they had eaten the meal, he took another cup of wine. He said, “ The wine in MTY this cup represents my blood, which will soon flow from my body when I die. With this blood I will sign the new agreement that God is making with you.

²¹But note that the one SYN who will enable my enemies to seize me is eating right here with me!

²²It is certain that I, the one who came from heaven, will die, because that is what God has planned. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who will ◄betray me/enable my enemies to seize me►!”

²³Then they began to ask one another, “Which of us would do such a thing?”

²⁴The apostles began to argue among themselves, saying, “Which one of us will be the greatest when Jesus becomes king?”

²⁵So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the non-Jews enjoy showing that they are powerful. Yet they give themselves the title, ‘ones who help the people.’

²⁶But you should not be like them! Instead, those who want God to consider them the greatest should act as though they were the youngest, since the youngest are expected to serve the older ones. Whoever is a leader should be one who serves the others.

²⁷Keep in mind who is the most important one RHQ. It is certainly the one who just sits at the table, not RHQ those who serve the meal. But I, your leader, have been an example for you by serving you while I have been among you.

²⁸You are the ones who have stayed with me during all my troubles.