And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
When the appointed hour arrived, Jesus sat down with the twelve apostles to eat the Passover, His final meal with them before His suffering. They ate it in a prepared, furnished upper room, the upper chamber of a dwelling at Jerusalem where they had gathered to celebrate the Passover. The hour that was come was the hour of His own death, which He knew had come. It was the last Passover He would keep with His disciples. He Himself was the true Paschal Lamb, to be sacrificed on the day the Passover was eaten.
The meal marks the transition from the Passover to the sacramental service, which He instituted as the Lord's Supper, the enduring memorial of His sacrifice replacing the Passover festival. In keeping the Passover in obedience to the Jewish law and all its divinely appointed ordinances, and in connecting the Lord's Supper with it at that meal, He identified Himself as the great antitype of the paschal lamb. As the sinless Lamb of God whose merits alone avert the judgment and condemnation of fallen man, He fulfilled the great salvation typified by the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. He knew the circumstances of the occasion would never be forgotten by His disciples but would be recalled to memory and handed down from generation to generation in the history of the church.
The supper came before the walk to Gethsemane, when He walked with the disciples, spoke and taught them on the way, and became silent as they neared the garden where He often went to pray. The upper room where He met with the twelve for the last supper was the same room where the disciples later met after the crucifixion and where He appeared to them after His resurrection.
When the appointed hour arrived, Jesus sat down with the twelve apostles to eat the Passover, His final meal with them before His suffering. They ate it in a prepared, furnished upper room, the upper chamber of a dwelling at Jerusalem where they had gathered to celebrate the Passover. The hour that was come was the hour of His own death, which He knew had come. It was the last Passover He would keep with His disciples. He Himself was the true Paschal Lamb, to be sacrificed on the day the Passover was eaten.
The meal marks the transition from the Passover to the sacramental service, which He instituted as the Lord's Supper, the enduring memorial of His sacrifice replacing the Passover festival. In keeping the Passover in obedience to the Jewish law and all its divinely appointed ordinances, and in connecting the Lord's Supper with it at that meal, He identified Himself as the great antitype of the paschal lamb. As the sinless Lamb of God whose merits alone avert the judgment and condemnation of fallen man, He fulfilled the great salvation typified by the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. He knew the circumstances of the occasion would never be forgotten by His disciples but would be recalled to memory and handed down from generation to generation in the history of the church.
The supper came before the walk to Gethsemane, when He walked with the disciples, spoke and taught them on the way, and became silent as they neared the garden where He often went to pray. The upper room where He met with the twelve for the last supper was the same room where the disciples later met after the crucifixion and where He appeared to them after His resurrection.