This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 26, verse 28.

Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.

Aristotle at the table was written and read by Sheridan Voise.

Matthew 26, verses 26 to 29

While they were eating

Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks

he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying

take and eat this is my body

Then he took a cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying,

Drink from it, all of you.

This is my blood of the covenant, which has poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on

until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.

Aristotle at the table.

Aristotle said that no one can be friends with a God. Why? Because friendship requires equality

and what God would step down from their heavenly status to become equal with lowly human beings.

I wonder what Aristotle would have done if he'd been present at the Last Supper.

For there, Jesus, the Creator of all, who left his heavenly status to become a lowly human being,

told his disciples he no longer called

them servants, but friends. Aristotle would have been surprised, too, at who sat at that table.

There was Matthew, the Roman friendly tax collector, and then Simon, the Roman denouncing

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