Maundy Thursday: March 19, 2008.(Preaching Helps)

From: Currents in Theology and Mission | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14

Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

First Reading

As Paul's rehearsal indicates, any commemoration of the night in which Jesus was betrayed has the bread and cup at its center. Curiously, however, the bread and cup do not appear in the Last Supper account John's Gospel offers. Instead, we receive a towel and basin.

In John, this final gathering with the disciples happens on Nisan 14, one calendar day earlier than the Passover seder that appears in the synoptics' accounts. In John, Jesus will die on ...

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