In the Upper Room

[380 words] In Jerusalem, in the upper room of a house, Jesus gathers His disciple s around Him for the last time to eat the Passover feast. This was on the same night of His betrayal. There had been about three and a half years of association between Jesus and His disciples, but that is about to come to an end. One of the twelve, Judas the traitor, had already made a deal with the chief priests to betray Jesus. As Jesus tells the disciples that “He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day” (Matt. 16:21), they didn’t understand why He had to die. What would happen to them? They really expected Him to be an earthly ruler. With the old covenant coming to an end, Jesus takes this occasion to use…