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Today we continue our Easter devotional series as we follow the actions of Jesus on the

Thursday before Easter. Jesus instructs his disciples, Mark 14, 12 through 16.

On the first day of the festival of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed,

Jesus' disciples asked him, where do you want us to go to prepare the Passover meal

for you? So Jesus sent two of the minted Jerusalem with these instructions. As you go

into the city, a man carrying a picture of water will meet you. Follow him. At the house

he enters, say to the owner, the teacher asks, where is the guest room where I can eat the

Passover meal with my disciples? He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up.

That is where you should prepare our meal. So the two disciples went into the city and found

everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover meal there. Jesus eats the

Passover meal, Luke 22, 14 through 30. When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together

at the table. Jesus said, 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. Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it.

Then he said, take this and share it among yourselves, for I will not drink wine again

until the kingdom of God has come. He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.

Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, this is my body, which is

given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. After supper, he took another cup of wine and said,

this cup is the new covenant between God and his people, an agreement confirmed with my blood,

which is poured out as a sacrifice for you. But here at this table, sitting among us as a friend

is the man who will betray me, for it has been determined that the son of man must die.

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