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The Last Supper

About AD 30–33 JerusalemNew Testament

WHAT HAPPENED

The event

Jesus shared the Passover meal with His disciples and gave bread and the cup as signs of the new covenant.

WHY IT MATTERS

Its place in the story

The meal prepares the disciples to understand His coming death as sacrificial, saving, and covenant-making.

RELATED SCRIPTURE · KJV

Read it in the Bible

“And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.”

Luke 10:27

“He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,”

Luke 24:6

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