{"id":6591,"date":"2014-04-17T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:16","slug":"passion-week-maundy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2014\/04\/17\/passion-week-maundy-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Week: Maundy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In recognition of Passion Week, we will post the Scriptural narrative from Christ\u2019s triumphal entry on Palm Sunday to His death and resurrection, all throughout the week. For a full list of Scriptures, or for more Passion Week resources,\u00a0visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is “Maundy Thursday”?<\/h3>\n

Also known as “Holy Thursday” by some, this day is observed on the Thursday before Easter. It marks the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with His disciples prior to His betrayal and crucifixion.<\/p>\n

Maundy Thursday<\/h2>\n

Paschal supper (Matthew 26:17-30<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

17<\/sup>\u00a0Now on\u00a0the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, \u201cWhere will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?\u201d\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>He said,\u00a0\u201cGo into the city to a certain man and say to him,\u2018The Teacher says,\u00a0My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.\u2019\u201d\u00a019\u00a0<\/sup>And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.<\/p>\n

20\u00a0<\/sup>When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.\u00a021\u00a0<\/sup>And as they were eating,\u00a0he said,\u00a0\u201cTruly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.\u201d22\u00a0<\/sup>And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, \u201cIs it I, Lord?\u201d\u00a023\u00a0<\/sup>He answered,\u00a0\u201cHe who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.\u00a024\u00a0<\/sup>The Son of Man goes\u00a0as it is written of him, but\u00a0woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!\u00a0It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.\u201d\u00a025\u00a0<\/sup>Judas, who would betray him, answered, \u201cIs it I,\u00a0Rabbi?\u201d He said to him,\u00a0\u201cYou have said so.\u201d<\/p>\n

26\u00a0<\/sup>Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and\u00a0after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said,\u00a0\u201cTake, eat;\u00a0this is my body.\u201d\u00a027\u00a0<\/sup>And he took a cup, and when he\u00a0had given thanks he gave it to them, saying,\u00a0\u201cDrink of it, all of you,\u00a028\u00a0<\/sup>for\u00a0this is my\u00a0blood of thecovenant, which is poured out for\u00a0many\u00a0for the forgiveness of sins.\u00a029\u00a0<\/sup>I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you\u00a0in my Father\u2019s kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

30\u00a0<\/sup>And when they had sung a hymn,\u00a0they went out to\u00a0the Mount of Olives.<\/p>\n

(Also:\u00a0Mark 14:12-26<\/a>;\u00a0Luke 22:7-23<\/a>;\u00a0John 13:1-35<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Peter\u2019s fall foretold<\/strong> (John 13:36-38<\/a>):<\/p>\n

36<\/sup>\u00a0Simon Peter said to him, \u201cLord, where are you going?\u201d\u00a0Jesus answered him,\u00a0\u201cWhere I am going\u00a0you cannot follow me now,\u00a0but you will follow afterward.\u201d\u00a037\u00a0<\/sup>Peter said to him, \u201cLord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.\u201d\u00a038\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered,\u00a0\u201cWill you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you,\u00a0the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.<\/p>\n

(Also:\u00a0Matthew 26:31-35<\/a>;\u00a0Mark 14:27-31<\/a>;\u00a0Luke 22:31-39<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Last discourse: the departure and the Comforter (John 14:1-31<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cLet not your hearts be troubled.\u00a0Believe in God;\u00a0believe also in me.\u00a02\u00a0<\/sup>In\u00a0my Father\u2019s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that\u00a0I go to prepare a place for you?\u00a03\u00a0<\/sup>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you\u00a0to myself, that\u00a0where I am you may be also.\u00a04\u00a0<\/sup>And you know the way to where I am going.\u201d\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>Thomas said to him, \u201cLord,\u00a0we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?\u201d\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus said to him,\u201cI am\u00a0the way, and\u00a0the truth, and\u00a0the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>If you had known me, you would have\u00a0known my Father also.\u00a0From now on you do know him and\u00a0have seen him.\u201d<\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>Philip said to him, \u201cLord,\u00a0show us the Father, and it is enough for us.\u201d\u00a09\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cHave I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?\u00a0Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, \u2018Show us the Father\u2019?\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>Do you not believe that\u00a0I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you\u00a0I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>Believe me that\u00a0I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else\u00a0believe on account of the works themselves.<\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you,\u00a0whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I\u00a0am going to the Father.\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that\u00a0the Father may be glorified in the Son.\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>If you ask me\u00a0anything in my name, I will do it.<\/p>\n

15\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cIf you love me, you will\u00a0keep my commandments.\u00a016\u00a0<\/sup>And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another\u00a0Helper,\u00a0to be with you forever,\u00a017\u00a0<\/sup>even\u00a0the Spirit of truth,\u00a0whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and\u00a0will be\u00a0in you.<\/p>\n

18\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI will not leave you as orphans;\u00a0I will come to you.\u00a019\u00a0<\/sup>Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but\u00a0you will see me.\u00a0Because I live, you also will live.\u00a020\u00a0<\/sup>In that day you will know that\u00a0I am in my Father, and\u00a0you in me, and\u00a0I in you.\u00a021\u00a0<\/sup>Whoever has my commandments and\u00a0keeps them, he it is who loves me. And\u00a0he who loves me\u00a0will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and\u00a0manifest myself to him.\u201d\u00a022\u00a0<\/sup>Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, \u201cLord, how is it\u00a0that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?\u201d\u00a023\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered him,\u00a0\u201cIf anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and\u00a0we will come to him and\u00a0make our home with him.<\/p>\n

The vine and the branches (John 15:1-11<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cI am the\u00a0true vine, and my Father is\u00a0the vinedresser.\u00a02\u00a0<\/sup>Every branch in me that does not bear fruit\u00a0he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes,\u00a0that it may bear more fruit.3\u00a0<\/sup>Already\u00a0you are clean\u00a0because of the word that I have spoken to you.4\u00a0<\/sup>Abide\u00a0in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>I am the vine;\u00a0you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that\u00a0bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>If anyone does not abide in me\u00a0he is thrown away like a branch and withers;\u00a0and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>If\u00a0you abide in me, and my words abide in you,\u00a0ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.\u00a08\u00a0<\/sup>By this my Father is glorified, that you\u00a0bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.\u00a09\u00a0<\/sup>As the Father has loved me,\u00a0so have I loved you. Abide in my love.\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as\u00a0I have kept\u00a0my Father\u2019s commandments and abide in his love.\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>These things I have spoken to you,\u00a0that my joy may be in you, and that\u00a0your joy may be full.<\/p>\n

Abiding in love (John 15:12-17<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

12<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>Greater love has no one than this,\u00a0that someone lay down his life for his friends.\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>You are\u00a0my friends\u00a0if you do what I command you.\u00a015\u00a0<\/sup>No longer do I call you servants,\u00a0for the servant\u00a0does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for\u00a0all that I have heard from my Father\u00a0I have made known to you.\u00a016\u00a0<\/sup>You did not choose me, but\u00a0I chose you and appointed you that you should go and\u00a0bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that\u00a0whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.\u00a017\u00a0<\/sup>These things I command you,\u00a0so that you will love one another.<\/p>\n

Work of the Comforter in the disciples (John 16:5-15<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

5<\/sup>\u00a0But now\u00a0I am going to him who sent me, and\u00a0none of you asks me, \u2018Where are you going?\u2019\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>But because I have said these things to you,sorrow has filled your heart.\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for\u00a0if I do not go away,\u00a0the Helper will not come to you. But\u00a0if\u00a0I go,\u00a0I will send him to you.\u00a08\u00a0<\/sup>And when he comes, he will\u00a0convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:\u00a09\u00a0<\/sup>concerning sin,\u00a0because they do not believe in me;10\u00a0<\/sup>concerning righteousness,\u00a0because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;\u00a011\u00a0<\/sup>concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world\u00a0is judged.<\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>When\u00a0the Spirit of truth comes,\u00a0he will\u00a0guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but\u00a0whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.14\u00a0<\/sup>He will\u00a0glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.15\u00a0<\/sup>All that the Father has is mine;\u00a0therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.<\/p>\n

(Also:\u00a0John 16<\/a>, the whole chapter)<\/p>\n

The prayer of Christ for them (John 17:1-26<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0When Jesus had spoken these words,\u00a0he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,\u00a0\u201cFather,\u00a0the hour has come;\u00a0glorify your Son that the Son may\u00a0glorify you,\u00a02\u00a0<\/sup>since\u00a0you have given him authority over all flesh,\u00a0to give eternal life to all\u00a0whom you have given him.\u00a03\u00a0<\/sup>And this is eternal life,\u00a0that they know you\u00a0the only\u00a0true God, and\u00a0Jesus Christ whom you have sent.\u00a04\u00a0<\/sup>I\u00a0glorified you on earth,\u00a0having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>And now, Father,\u00a0glorify me in your own presence with the glory\u00a0that I had with you\u00a0before the world existed.<\/p>\n

(Read the rest)<\/a><\/p>\n

Gethsemane (Luke 22:40-46<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

40<\/sup>\u00a0And when he came to\u00a0the place, he said to them,\u00a0\u201cPray that you may not\u00a0enter into temptation.\u201d\u00a041\u00a0<\/sup>And he withdrew from them about a stone\u2019s throw, and\u00a0knelt down and prayed,\u00a042\u00a0<\/sup>saying,\u00a0\u201cFather, if you are willing, remove\u00a0this cup from me.\u00a0Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.\u201d\u00a043\u00a0<\/sup>And there appeared to him\u00a0an angel from heaven, strengthening him.\u00a044\u00a0<\/sup>And\u00a0being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.\u00a045\u00a0<\/sup>And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,\u00a046\u00a0<\/sup>and he said to them,\u00a0\u201cWhy are you sleeping? Rise and\u00a0pray that you may not enter into temptation.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Also:\u00a0Matthew 26:36-46<\/a>;\u00a0Mark 14:32-42<\/a>;\u00a0Luke 22:40-46<\/a>;\u00a0John 18:1<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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