The Last Supper & Passover

The Upper Room on Mt. Zion where the Last Supper took place is one of the most visited sites in the Holy Land and included in the RELIVE THE BIBLE TOURS.

Easter is one of the most important feasts to many people in the world and begins a week earlier - the Holy Week - and ends on Sunday with the resurrection. It is common knowledge that Jesus grew up as a Jew and so did his disciples. It is important to note that the only people at that time that believed in one God were the Jews. Nobody had yet heard about Christianity or about Islam.

Passover has been celebrated since the People of Israel came from Egypt, 1,500 years before Jesus, on the 15th of the first month of the Jewish calendar, the month of Nisan. This tradition is kept till today. The Last Supper in Jerusalem on Mt. Zion was a traditional Passover meal for Jesus and his disciples. During this Last Supper he knew that he was about to be crucified and in the middle of the ceremony “… as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Mathew 26)

The communion or mass, practiced today, originated from this moment in the ceremony of the Last Supper. A roasted lamb that was served as the main dish, in remembrance of the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of the Israelites which protected their ancestors from the destroying angel, is symbolic of Jesus being the sacrificial lamb of Passover.

I invite you to learn more about the connection between Passover and the Last Supper in this informative video.