The Last Supper

Apostles

Look at all my trials and tribulations

Sinking in a gentle pool of wine.

Don’t disturb me now I can see the answers

Till this evening is this morning life is fine.

Always hoped that I’d be an apostle,

Knew that I would make it if I tried.

Then when we retire we can write the gospels,

So they’ll still talk about us when we’ve died.

 

 

Jesus

The end …

Is just a little harder when brought about by friends.

For all you care this wine could be my blood.

For all you care this bread could be my body.

The end!

This is my blood you drink,

This is my body you eat,

If you would remember me when you eat and drink.

I must be mad thinking I’ll be remembered – yes,

I must be out of my head!

Look at your blank faces! My name will mean nothing

Ten minutes after I’m dead!

One of you denies me

One of you betrays me!

This is a picture of the Last Supper by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. Christians today commemorate Jesus’ last meal with His disciples by eating and drinking holy bread and wine. The bread and wine are referred to as the body and the blood of Christ.

The Last Supper took place during a Jewish Passover meal. During the meal, there were a number of symbolic actions which reminded people of what God had done for them. Among these actions were the sharing of bread and wine. Jesus took these and gave them a new meaning. God was making a new agreement with His people, sealed by the death of Jesus and setting them free from slavery to sin and death.

 

“… A class of persons hated for their vices, whom the crowd called Christians. Christus, after whom they were named, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment only to break out once more, not only in Judea, the home of the disease, but in the capital itself, where everything horrible or shameful in the world gathers and becomes fashionable.

ANNALES, XV, 44”