St. Mark's Parish Church, Stirling

The Last Supper
 

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples asked Jesus, “Where would you like us to plan for you to eat the Passover feast?”  Jesus replied to them, “Go into the city and you will find a man, and tell him that we would like to come to his house for Passover.”

First of all, what is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and what is the Passover?  These are actually the same things.  The Jews celebrated the Passover ever since the time of Moses, when the Lord saved all the Israelite babies.  This was when the Lord ‘passed over’ their houses, and they were kept safe.  This is another big story your teacher will have to tell you another time.

During the time of the Passover celebrations the people didn’t eat or have any bread in their homes with yeast in it.  Yeast is what makes the bread all big and puffy.  Without yeast the bread is flat, and that is called unleavened bread.  Now back to the story.

The disciples did just as Jesus asked, and they found a place and got ready for the Passover. 

The evening came, and Jesus and the twelve disciples sat to eat the meal.  The disciples were eating quietly, they had a lot on their minds.  They were worried because some people wanted to kill Jesus because he was getting so popular.

Jesus could see the disciples were worried.  He said to them quietly, “I tell you the truth, one of you here will betray me.”  The disciples looked at each other in shock, and some of them asked Jesus, “It isn’t me, is it Lord?”

Jesus replied, “The one who dips his bread into the bowl with me will betray me.  I will die, just as it is written, but the man who betrays me will feel sorry forever.”