Guest Writer: Connie Brandt, Elder
Scripture: Mark 14:12-14
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, the disciples said to Jesus, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover meal?” He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city. A man carrying a water jar will meet you. Follow him. 1Wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?
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Jesus, (In the midst of all of Judas’ readiness for betrayal), kept on, in perseverance…faithful, to accomplish all His Father had given Him to do, down to the last detail. Jesus cared to give His twelve a safe, comfortable place to share His Last Supper. Jesus allows the two disciples to participate. He sends them from Bethany, to be an instrumental part of His Passion, even when it is unknown, to them. In Bethany, when the two disciples asked where the Passover meal was to be, later that day, Jesus gave them a roundabout answer. The two go and the others know nothing of the place. They met a man carrying water, (from a well?) and follow him to the Upper Room. Perhaps Jesus wanted to baffle His traitor, until the timing was perfect in God’s plan. When the time is right, Jesus arrives with the other ten.
Jesus is the Paschal (Passover) lamb. This passage symbolizes the purely voluntary nature of His sacrifice. How He “chose” to be betrayed, to be taken, to suffer and to die. The Lord of all gave Himself up in royal freedom to the death to which nothing dragged Him, but His own love for us. How honored the man must have felt who provided that room. We, as believers, need to respond to the prompting and leading of the Holy Spirit, even when there are “unknowns,” by staying in constant and close fellowship with our God. Our Lord knows all things about us before they come to pass.
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