Servant- Savior-The Lamb

Luke 22:15-16, NLT
“I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”  

Jesus sent Peter and John from Bethany to Jerusalem to prepare for the Passover feast. That evening after sunset, a day earlier than normal to eat the Passover, Jesus gathered with His disciples to share this last Passover meal together before His death. As the Lamb of God, Jesus was about to fulfill the meaning of Passover by giving his body to be broken and his blood to be shed in sacrifice, freeing us from sin and death.

Jesus established the Lord’s Supper, or Communion as we call it most of the time. The bread is His body that lives in us, and the wine or grape juice symbolizes His blood that was shed for us at Calvary. (Luke 22:19-20).

After the Passover meal, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. Jesus was demonstrating how believers should love one another and serve one another. Although this was a custom that was regular in Jesus’s time, this act was usually carried out by a servant in the home. Some churches still carry out this act as an example of how to serve, but this would look much different in the first century AD.

Jesus said to His disciples, “For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” Jesus was speaking of the future event that would happen when Jesus comes back to earth before His millennial reign. (Revelation 20:1-6)

Later, Jesus and the disciples left the Upper Room and went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed in agony to the Father.

Late that evening in Gethsemane, Jesus was betrayed with a kiss by Judas Iscariot and arrested by the Sanhedrin. He was taken to the home the High Priest, where the whole council had gathered to begin making their case against Jesus. This trial was held illegally and a sham at best.

These activities of Jesus and His Disciples are recorded in the following verses of scripture. Matthew 26:17–75, Mark 14:12-72, Luke 22:7-62, and John 13:1-38.

Prayer:
Lord, Jesus, I cannot image the pain of desertion, the pain of the ridicule, and the abuse in words. I cannot imagine what it meant that the religious leaders, that are designed to lead us to God, was killing God instead. Forgive me Lord for every time I symbolically turned my back on you by my words and deeds. Lord thank you for not only forgiving me, but for taking the abuse that was meant for me. I humble myself before You, Amen!