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Gospel Reading - Jesus Passover - The Last Supper

¹And now the Passover celebration was drawing near—the Jewish festival when only bread made without yeast was used.

⁷Now the day of the Passover celebration arrived, when the Passover lamb was killed and eaten with the unleavened bread. ⁸Jesus sent Peter and John ahead to find a place to prepare their Passover meal.

⁹“Where do you want us to go?” they asked.

¹⁰And he replied, “As soon as you enter Jerusalem,^a you will see a man walking along carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house he enters, ¹¹and say to the man who lives there, ‘Our Teacher says for you to show us the guest room where he can eat the Passover meal with his disciples.’ 12 He will take you upstairs to a large room all ready for us. That is the place. Go ahead and prepare the meal there.”

¹³They went off to the city and found everything just as Jesus had said, and prepared the Passover supper.

¹⁴Then Jesus and the others arrived, and at the proper time all sat down together at the table; ¹⁵and he said, “I have looked forward to this hour with deep longing, anxious to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. ¹⁶For I tell you now that I won’t eat it again until what it represents has occurred in the Kingdom of God.”