Now when the Feast of the Passover was to be kept, the twelve disciples asked Jesus where they should prepare it. At this feast, the Jews solemnly ate together of a lamb, and bread made without leaven (or ferment), in memory of their deliverance out of the land of Egypt. Jesus told His disciples to go into the city, where they would meet a man carrying a vessel of water. They were to follow this man, and ask the master of the house into which he entered, to show them a room where they might eat the Passover. So they went, and found it as Jesus had said; and they made ready the Passover. In the evening Jesus came to the house, and sat down to supper with the twelve disciples. And He told them, how earnestly he had longed to eat that Passover with them, for it was the last that He should keep. Then, as they were eating, should be They were He said that one of them tray Him to His enemies. very sorrowful when they heard this, each one asking anxiously if it should be he. Even Judas ventured to ask, as the others did, "Is it I?" As if his Lord did not know all his treachery! And Jesus told him, it was he. Then Jesus took bread; and after He had given thanks to God, He brake it and gave it to the disciples, telling them that represented His body about to be slain for them. And He bade them eat it in remembrance of Him. He then took a cup of wine, and having given thanks, bade them all drink of it; for that wine represented His blood which was about to be shed, in order that the sins of all human beings might be forgiven. CHRIST WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET. WHEN He rose from supper, Jesus put off His upper garment; which was a loose, flowing robe, such as is worn in the East. Then taking a towel, He poured water into a bason, and began to wash the feet of His disciples, wiping them with the towel. When He came to wash the feet of Peter, Peter would have prevented Him; for he was ashamed that his Lord should render him so mean a service. Jesus answered, that He would presently tell him why He did it; and at last Peter suffered Him to wash his feet. Then, when our Lord had put on His garment, and sat down with them again, He asked the disciples if they knew why |