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Shema Shema Israel, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. Baruch shem k’vod malchuto l’olam va’ed.

Shema Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is One! Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom, forever and ever. Amein.

Mark 14:12-21 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where would you like us to go to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover Feast?” The Source with Hebraic adaptation by Rabbi Lutton

Jesus sent out two of his disciples with the instructions, “Go into the city, and a person who is carrying a ceramic jar of water will meet you. Follow that person! Say to the owner of the house the person goes into, ‘The teacher says, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover Feast with my disciples?”’

The house’s owner will show you a large upstairs room, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there!” The disciples went away into the city, and found it happened just like Jesus said, and they made the preparations for the Passover. When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. While they were reclining at the table over dinner, Jesus said, “One of you eating with me will betray me!”

They were distressed, and one by one asked him, “Surely it’s not me?” Jesus said, “It’s one of the Twelve, one who dips in the sauce bowl with me! On the one hand the Son of Man is going away just as the Scriptures say about him, but on the other hand, alas for the person who betrays the Son of Man! That person would have been better off if they’d never been born!”

Luke 22:7-13 Then the Feast of Unleavened Bread arrived – it was the one on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John with the instructions, “Go and get everything ready for us to eat the Passover Feast.” “Where would you like us to prepare it?” they asked.

“As you’re going into the city, you will meet a person who’s carrying a jar of water,” Jesus answered. “Follow this person into the house and say to the house’s owner, ‘The Teacher asks, “Where is the guest room? I want to eat the Passover Feast there with my disciples.”’

“The owner will show you a large furnished upstairs room. Make the preparations there.” They left and found everything exactly as Jesus had said, and made the preparations.

Matthew 26:17-5 On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples asked Jesus, “Where would you like us to prepare the Passover meal for you?” He replied, “Go into the city to so-and-so and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My time is near, I am to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’’”

So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and they prepared the Passover meal. When evening came Jesus reclined at the table with the Twelve. While they were eating, he said, “One of you is going to betray me!”

They became very upset. Each and every one of them kept saying to him, “I’m not the one, am I?” “One of you who has shared the meal with me will betray me!” he answered. “What’s been written about the Son of Man will happen to him for sure, but woe betides that person who betrays the Son of Man!

That person would have been better off if he’d never been born!” Judas, the one who was going to betray him, said, “Rabbi, it’s not me, is it?” “You said it!” Jesus said.

Mark 14:22-26 While they were eating, Jesus picked up some bread, pronounced a blessing on it, broke it up into pieces and gave it to them, saying, “Take it, this is my body.” He picked up a wine cup and after he expressed thankfulness, he gave it to them, and they all had a drink of it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for everyone.

I will no longer drink the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it fresh in God’s Realm.” After they had sung a festive praise song, they went to the Mount of Olives.

Matthew 26:26-30 While they were eating, Jesus picked up some bread, and after blessing it broke it into pieces. He gave it to the disciples and said, “Take it, eat it, this is my body!” He picked up the wine cup, and expressed thankfulness. He gave it to them and said, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood which seals the covenant, my blood shed to cancel the sins of many people.

Here Yeshua took a Nazirite Vow I will not drink this produce of the vine from now on until the day I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” After they had sung a festive praise song, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

John 13:1-3 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to move on from this world and go to the Father. He had loved his own people who were in the world, and he loved them to the utmost extent. It was time for the evening meal. Slanderer-Liar had already put it into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Jesus.

Jesus knew that the Father had handed everything over to him, and that he came from God and was going back to God.

John 13:4-11 He got up from dinner and took off his coat, then wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and started washing the disciples’ feet. He wiped them dry with the towel around his waist. Then he came to Simon Peter. “Lord, are you going to wash my feet!” Peter exclaimed.

Jesus answered, “You don’t know what I’m doing now, but you’ll realize afterwards.” “No way! You’re never going to wash my feet!” Peter said. “If I don’t wash them, you and I are not sharing,” Jesus answered. Simon Peter said, “Lord, then don’t just wash my feet but my hands and head as well!”

“A person who’s had a bath only needs to wash their feet because the rest of them is clean,” Jesus answered. “And you lot are clean, though not every one of you is.” Actually, Jesus knew who was going to betray him, so that was why he said that not all of them were clean.

John 13:12-17 When Jesus had finished washing their feet, he put his coat back on and went back to his place. “Do you realize what I’ve done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’, and rightly so, because that’s what I am. So since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you should wash each other’s feet. I have given you this example, so that you should do what I have done for you.

Let me make this quite clear, no slave servant is more important than their master, and no messenger is more important than the one who sent the messenger. Now that you know this, you will be happy if you do it.

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