Monday
(28/04/2014) – Read Luke 22:7-13
What Day
was that?
What were
the Jews commemorating?
What Jesus
wanted Peter and John to do?
Where
Jesus wanted the supper for the Passover to be prepared?
What was
the signal to know the right place?
How was
the place supposed to be like?
What
happened when Peter and John left?
The Jews
were celebrating the Passover which was the feast to commemorate when the
people of Israel left Egypt. This feast would go for the whole night. The feast
of the Unleavened Bread started on the
day of the Passover and remained for seven days. During this week the people
wouldn’t use or eat yeast, representing that the people had no time to let the
bread be raised when they were leaving Egypt. Jesus wanted to celebrate the
Passover as well and chose Peter and John to prepare it. Where were they going
to prepare it? Jesus gave the sign. The
sign would be a man carrying a jar of water. They should prepare the supper in
the house where this man entered that, according to tradition, was the house of
John Mark, the writer of the second Gospel.
How is
this text relevant for us? Only because of Jesus’ omniscience, giving every
detail about what was going to happen before it happened? No. The importance is
that the given sign was a man carrying a jar of water. This was a difficult
sign to let pass unnoticed because in the Jewish culture it was the role of
women to draw water from the wells or to carry jars of water. The fact of a man be doing the work of a
woman would be easy to recognize. Why would a man be doing this kind of
service? This may show the heart of a
servant, of someone who saw a need and acted to supply it. Do you want Jesus to
came to have a banquet in your life, celebrating you leaving the life of sin
behind? The sign is a heart of a
servant. God doesn’t call lazy people to do His work. He seeks for servants.
Memory Verse:
“Serve one another
in love.”
Galatians 5:13c
