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179:2.1 For a few [[moments]] after [[the Master]] had gone to his place, not a [[word]] was [[spoken]]. [[Jesus]] looked them all over and, relieving the [[tension]] with a smile, said: " I have greatly [[desired]] to eat this [[Passover]] with you. I wanted to eat with you once more before I [[suffered]], and [[realizing]] that my hour has come, I arranged to have this supper with you tonight, for, as concerns the morrow, we are all in the hands of [[the Father]], whose will I have come to [[execute]]. I shall not again eat with you until you sit down with me in [[the kingdom]] which [[the Father|my Father]] will give me when I have finished that for which he sent me into this world. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_22]

179:2.2 After the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_seder#Kadeish_.28blessings_and_the_first_cup_of_wine.29 wine and the water] had been mixed, they brought the cup to [[Jesus]], who, when he had [[received]] it from the hand of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Apostle Thaddeus], held it while he offered [[thanks]]. And when he had finished offering [[thanks]], he said: " Take this cup and divide it among yourselves and, when you partake of it, realize that I shall not again drink with you the fruit of the vine since this is our last supper. When we sit down again in this [[manner]], it will be in [[the kingdom]] to come. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_22]

179:2.3 [[Jesus]] began thus to talk to his [[apostles]] because he knew that his hour had come. He [[understood]] that the time had come when he was to return to [[the Father]], and that his [[work]] on [[earth]] was almost finished. [[The Master]] knew he had [[revealed]] [[the Father]]'s [[love]] on [[earth]] and had shown forth his [[mercy]] to [[mankind]], and that he had completed that for which he came into the world, even to the [[receiving]] of all [[power]] and [[authority]] in [[heaven]] and on [[earth]]. Likewise, he knew [[Judas Iscariot]] had fully made up his [[mind]] to deliver him that night into the hands of his [[enemies]]. He fully [[realized]] that this traitorous [[betrayal]] was the [[work]] of [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], but that it also pleased [[Lucifer]], [[Satan]], and [[Caligastia]] the prince of [[darkness]]. But he [[feared]] none of those who sought his [[spiritual]] overthrow any more than he [[feared]] those who sought to accomplish his [[physical]] [[death]]. [[The Master]] had but one [[anxiety]], and that was for the [[safety]] and [[salvation]] of his chosen followers. And so, with the full [[knowledge]] that [[the Father]] had put [[all things]] under his [[authority]], [[the Master]] now [[prepared]] to enact the [[parable]] of [[brother]]ly [[love]].

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