The Lord’s Supper
Sermon Notes
Jesus as Guest
Mark 14:1-11 – Another Markan ________________.
V. 1, 2 – The imminence of Jesus’ ___________ is clearly in the air…
V. 3 – Jesus is in the habit of eating with the ________________ people.
• This meal story, right before the Passover meal, gives us a glimpse of who is _________________ at Jesus’ table!
V. 10, 11 – Judas agrees to betray Jesus with the promise of _________________.
Jesus as Host
V. 12-16 – The Passover takes a lot to ___________________. It was a reminder of the ________________ story.
The tempo of Jesus’ ______________ and accurate _______________ really starts to pick up here.
V. 17-21 – The worst possible break of trust was the betrayal of _____________ ______________.
Jesus reinterprets the meaning of ____________________; this is a new _________________ story. He invites us to share in the ___________________ itself.
V. 22 – “Given thanks” is the Greek word _____________________. He reinterprets the bread to represent his ________________.
V. 23, 24 – “Blood of the Covenant” – The blood is the _________________ of the covenant.
“Poured out for many” (10:45) – He reinterprets the cup to represent his _______________.
V. 25 – The Lord’s Supper is…
Mark 14 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
The Plot to Kill Jesus
It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him; 2 for they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.”
The Anointing at Bethany
3 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. 4 But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 11 When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
The Passover with the Disciples
12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” 13 So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, 14 and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” 16 So the disciples set out and went to the city, and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.
17 When it was evening, he came with the twelve. 18 And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” 19 They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, “Surely, not I?” 20 He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. 21 For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”
The Institution of the Lord’s Supper
22 While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.” 23 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 25 Truly I tell you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
Peter’s Denial Foretold
26 When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives