Easter Holy Week; Last Supper
Please note below several Last Supper excerpts to consider. It’s always fascinating to see what our Father God reveals to us once we more deeply consider His scriptures. It’s always interesting to consider how, in Matthew 26:34 Jesus predicts that Peter will deny Him three times in just a few hours, which of course Peter did. But then, subsequent to the resurrection, Jesus fully restores Peter by asking him also three times if he loves Him (John 21:15-17) and then sends Peter off to feed His sheep!
Good Friday is coming soon………and Resurrection Sunday is just around the corner!
Last Supper
Matthew 26: 23-24: "One of you who is eating with Me now will betray Me. For I, the Son of Man, must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago...." (NLT); (note; written more than 400 years before the event was Psalm 41:9 (NKJV): Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
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Matthew 26: 26-29: As they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and asked God's blessings on it. Then he broke it into pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take it and eat it, for this is My body." And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, "Each of you drink from it for this is My blood, which seals the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out to forgive the sins of many. Mark My words----I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in My Father's Kingdom." (NLT)
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Matthew 26:34 (NKJV): Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” (Jesus was speaking to Peter.)
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Matthew 16:21 (NKJV) (Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection): From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
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Hebrews 9:19-22 (NKJV): For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you. Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
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Hebrews 9:27-28 (NKJV): And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
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Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (Words by Thomas Ken 1709 or 1674; depending on which reference you believe)