Matthew 26:17-29 | Mark 14:12-25 | Luke 22:7-38 | John 13

On the day that Jesus will later be arrested, arrangements are made for them to celebrate the Passover meal, which is where the Lord initiates the new covenant, based on His blood that will be shed, and His body that will be broken.  He again tells them that He will be taken and crucified, and that the one who will betray Him is among them.  He identifies Judas as His betrayer, but no one seems to notice, just like they persist in ignoring that He is preparing to die the very next day.  He also tells Peter that he will deny Him three times that very night, which he does not believe.

There had been many times in Christ’s ministry when the disciples would argue about which of them would be the greatest in His kingdom, and this happens again, just hours before Jesus is going to be betrayed and arrested later that night.  Jesus again tells them that anyone who wants to be great in His kingdom must humble himself to be the least of all servants, and then He demonstrates that very thing by humbling Himself to wash each of their feet.  It was the duty of the lowest household slave to wash the feet of guests who came into the house, and Jesus does what none of His disciples had done when they first arrived, serving each of them in the role of the lowest slave.  We never see another time when any of these disciples will see each other as competition in the Lord’s kingdom.