5. The Last Supper   最後晚餐

Mark

    Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.  When they heard what he had come for, they were greatly pleased, and promised him money; and he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

    Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lambs were being slaughtered, his disciples said to him, "Where would you like us to go and prepare for your Passover supper?"  So he sent out two of his disciples with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a jar of water.  Follow him, and when he enters a house give this message to the householder: 'The Master says, "Where is the room reserved for me to eat the Passover with my disciples?"'  He will show you a large room upstairs, set out in readiness.  Make the preparations for us there."  Then the disciples went off, and when they came into the city they found everything just as he had told them.  So they prepared for Passover.

    In the evening he came to the house with the Twelve.  As they sat at supper Jesus said, "I tell you this: one of you will betray me-- one who is eating with me."  At this they were dismayed, and one by one they said to him, "Not I, surely?"  "It is one of the Twelve", he said, "who is dipping into the same bowl with me.  The Son of Man is going the way appointed for him in the scriptures.  But alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!  It would be better for that man if he had never been born."

    During supper he took bread, and having said the blessing he broke it and gave it to them, with the words: "Take this, this is my body."  Then he took a cup, and having offered thanks to God he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.  And he said, "This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, shed for many.  I tell you this: never again shall I drink from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

馬可福音

   十二門徒中有個叫猶大的加略人去見祭司長，說要出賣耶穌給他們。聽到他的來意後，他們非常高興，答應給他賞錢。於是他開始尋找機會出賣耶穌。

    除酵節的第一天，也就是宰逾越節羊羔的那一天，門徒們對耶穌說：「你要我們到哪兒去給你預備逾越節宴席呢？」耶穌便打發兩個門徒說：「你們進城去，會遇到一個手拿水罐的人，你們就跟著他。他走進一戶人家後，你們就對那家的主人說：『我主問，我和門徒們要吃逾越節宴席的屋子在哪兒呢？』他會引你們到樓上一間預備妥當的大屋子，你們就在那兒為我們準備。」門徒便走了。進城後，發現一切都如耶穌所說的一樣。於是他們就在那兒準備逾越節的宴席。

    到了晚上，耶穌和十二門徒來到了那人的家。他們坐下吃飯時，耶穌說：「我告訴你們，你們中間有一個正和我一起吃飯的人要出賣我了。」他們聽後都感到十分驚愕，一個接一個地問耶穌：「不是我吧？」耶穌說：「是你們當中和我同蘸一個盤子吃飯的人。人子就要像經書上安排的那樣逝去。但那個出賣人子的人就要遭難了。那人如果沒有出生還好一點。

    他們吃飯時，耶穌拿起麵包先謝主賜食，然後把麵包分給眾人。他說：「吃吧，這是我的身體。」然後他又拿起一杯葡萄汁先謝主賜食後，遞給他們，他們每人都喝了。耶穌說：「這是我的血，是我立約為眾人而流的血。我告訴你們，在我於上帝之國喝到新的葡萄汁的日子之前，我再也不喝這葡萄汁了。」