6. He accepted their offer and sought a favorable opportunity to hand him over to them in the absence of a crowd.
7. When the day of the feast of Unleavened Bread arrived, the day for sacrificing the Passover lamb,
8. he sent out Peter and John, instructing them, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
9. They asked him, “Where do you want us to make the preparations?”
10. And he answered them, “When you go into the city, a man will meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house that he enters
11. and say to the master of the house, ‘The teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’
12. He will show you a large upper room that is furnished. Make the preparations there.”
13. Then they went off and found everything exactly as he had told them, and there they prepared the Passover.
14. When the hour came, he took his place at table with the apostles.
15. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
16. for, I tell you, I shall not eat it [again] until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17. Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves;
18. for I tell you [that] from this time on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”