14:12 除酵節的第一天，就是宰逾越羊羔的那一天，門徒對耶穌說：「你吃逾越節的筵席要我們往哪裡去預備呢？」
14:13 耶穌就打發兩個門徒，對他們說：「你們進城去，必有人拿著一瓶水迎面而來，你們就跟著他。
14:14 他進哪家去，你們就對那家的主人說：『夫子說：客房在哪裡？我與門徒好在那裡吃逾越節的筵席。』
14:15 他必指給你們擺設整齊的一間大樓，你們就在那裡為我們預備。」
14:16 門徒出去，進了城，所遇見的正如耶穌所說的。他們就預備了逾越節的筵席。
14:17 到了晚上，耶穌和十二個門徒都來了。
14:18 他們坐席正吃的時候，耶穌說：「我實在告訴你們，你們中間有一個與我同吃的人要賣我了。」
14:19 他們就憂愁起來，一個一個地問他說：「是我嗎？」
14:20 耶穌對他們說：「是十二個門徒中同我蘸手在盤子裡的那個人。
14:21 人子必要去世，正如經上指著他所寫的；但賣人子的人有禍了！那人不生在世上倒好。」
14:22 他們吃的時候，耶穌拿起餅來，祝了福，就擘開，遞給他們，說：「你們拿著吃，這是我的身體」；
14:23 又拿起杯來，祝謝了，遞給他們；他們都喝了。
14:24 耶穌說：「這是我立約的血，為多人流出來的。
14:25 我實在告訴你們，我不再喝這葡萄汁，直到我在上帝的國裡喝新的那日子。」
14:26 他們唱了詩，就出來，往橄欖山去。
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
24 “This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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主耶穌設立聖餐有兩股張力穿叉在其中，一股力量是上帝完全的愛，另一股力量是人的悖逆。這是讓人覺得很大的反差，竟然上帝是無保留的對人的愛，甚至犧牲的愛！可是，人就是要悖逆、就是要背叛這位愛人到底的主，就是要將祂的存在裕愛的作為否定，甚至祂成為人的樣式來到世界，也是不承認祂的主權，甚至要將祂殺害！
人本以為是照自己的意思來除掉祂，卻不知這卻完成上帝的旨意，透過上帝愛子的犧牲，敗壞了那背叛的勢力，正如希伯來書所說：「兒女既同有血肉之體，他也照樣親自成了血肉之體，特要藉著死敗壞那掌死權的，就是魔鬼，並要釋放那些一生因怕死而為奴僕的人。」(2:14-15)
保羅也說：「因我們還軟弱的時候，基督就按所定的日期為罪人死。為義人死，是少有的；為仁人死，或者有敢做的。現在我們既靠著他的血稱義，就更要藉著他免去上帝的忿怒。因為我們作仇敵的時候，且藉著上帝兒子的死，得與上帝和好；既已和好，就更要因他的生得救了。不但如此，我們既藉著我主耶穌基督得與上帝和好，也就藉著他以上帝為樂。」(羅馬書5:6-11)
這是多麼奇妙的作為，多麼大的力量，讓我們永生難忘！求聖靈光照啟示，讓我們為這樣的救贖大恩所折服、所更新，真真正正重生成為上帝的兒女，在耶穌基督裡！
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