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While they were yet eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, take, eat; this represents my body. and he took the cup, and having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it: for this represents my blood, the blood of the new covenant which is shed for mankind for the remission of sins.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when the paschal lamb is kill'd, his disciples said to him, where would you have us go and prepare for your eating the paschal lamb? upon which he dispatch'd two of his disciples, and said to them: go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house: "thus saith our master; where is the chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?" read more.
and he will shew you a large upper room ready furnished: there make preparation for us. his disciples therefore went away, and being come into the city, they found every thing, as he had told them; and they prepared the paschal lamb. There he came in the evening with the twelve. and as they sat eating, Jesus said, verily I say unto you, one of you that is eating with me, will betray me. and they were seized with sorrow, all successively asking him, is it I? but he answered them, saying, it is one of the twelve, he that eats of the same mess with me. the son of man is going indeed, according to what is written of him: but wo to that man, by whom the son of man is betrayed: it would be better for that man, if he had never been born. When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body. and he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. and he said to them, this represents the effusion of my blood (the sanction of the new covenant) for mankind. but this I tell you, I will never more drink of this fruit of the vine, from this time forth to that day, when I shall drink with you of the spiritual wine in the kingdom of God.

The day of unleaven'd bread being come, when the paschal-lamb was to be sacrific'd, Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, go, and make provision for our eating the paschal-lamb. they ask'd him, where would you have us prepare it? read more.
he answered, when you are in the city, you will meet a man with a pitcher of water; follow him to the house, where he goes in: and say to the man of the house, our master sent to ask for a room, where he may eat the passover with his disciples. and he will show you a large upper room ready fitted: there prepare the supper. so they went, and having found every thing as Jesus had said, they made ready the passover. The hour of eating being come, he, and the twelve apostles sat down to table. and he said to them, I have ardently desired to eat this passover with you, before I suffer. for I declare unto you, I shall not celebrate this passover with you any more, to the time, when it shall have its accomplishment in the kingdom of the messiah. having then taken the cup, and given thanks, he said, take this, and distribute it to one another. for I tell you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine to the time when the kingdom of God shall come. then he took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, saying, this represents my body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me. and after supper he likewise gave the cup, saying, this cup is the new testament sealed by my blood, which is shed for you.