THE LAST SUPPER
- TIMC
- Apr 17
- 2 min read
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Matthew 26:17-29 THE LAST SUPPER WITH THE DISCIPLES GIVING A NEW MEANING TO THE PASSOVER CELEBRATION
The Jewish feast of Passover had been celebrated for centuries and was a significant festival in which the Jewish people looked back and remembered the Lord’s marvellous deliverance of their people from slavery in Egypt.
Centuries later, Jesus shared a Passover meal with his disciples. Whilst they did look back during that meal, Jesus also looked to the present and broke bread and took a cup in a ceremony that was to speak of his coming suffering and death on the cross. Jesus explained to his disciples that the bread and the wine of the meal symbolised his body and blood which were given and poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. The following day Jesus, our Passover lamb was sacrificed on the cross.
On the cross, he took up our pain and bore our suffering. Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, in an amazing display of obedience to the Father and love for mankind, took on himself the punishment for our sin meaning that the judgement for sin for all those who believe in him has passed over them. The debt has been paid.
In taking the bread and the wine, we too look back and remember our Lord’s amazing sacrifice at Calvary but we also rejoice that the grave could not hold him. Whilst we do look back, we also look to the future to when Jesus will come again when those who believe in Him will drink from the fruit of the vine with him in his Father’s kingdom.
[written by Stuart Hunter]
