The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-28
THE SUNDAY-SCHOoL LESSON.
May 20; 1sos-Matthew XVI, 1880.


Jesus tarried yet in the secIuslon of Bethany;
but His disciples knew that He who had said.
Thus it becomes me to fulfil all righteousness
would not ignore the great PaschaI The question
was not If He would eat. but when He would
do
Two of the disciples are at commissioned
to make the necessary preparations They are
sent with sealed orders doubt, to keep the
traitor off their track.
At shutdown Jesus. with the ten, approached
the city, knowing well where He would find the
waiting disciples and the supper room. They
enter. and the Master views the preparations
with evident satisfaction. The three first stars
are shining now, and the silver trumpets signal
the feast to begin
Now the PaschaI banquet begins The ritual
is used, the rubrics observed The cup is passed
with thanksgiving Bitter herbs. dipped in vine-
gar are eaten in remembrance of Egypt. The
unleavened bread. with bit of roasted lamb
upon it, is taken by each. Another cup is passed.
There is the customary hand-washing. Jesus. as
symposarch, discourses upon the significance of
the feast They break out In the joyous singing
of the first part of the Hael. Psalms cxiii-cxiv)
The third and last cup goes from hand TO hand
as they sing the second part of the Hallel.
psalms cxv-cxvii)
At times through the feast Jesus gives intima-
tions, increasingly distinct, of His betrayal and
betrayer. He suffers not His manner toward
Judas to change. He probably let him take the
chief place at the table. He washed his feet and
gave him his portion with His own hand But
the devil in his heart and the thirty pieces
of silver in his scrip. An incubus was lifted
when the apostate left the apostles.
All that remained of the Paschal ritual was the
blessing of praise with which it was always
closed They were all expecting it, The innova-
ton could not but be noticed by those who had
followed one programme annually IRON the tme
4l,a old n
hand in benediction, Jesus reached over to the
dish of uneavened bread upon the table, and
blessed it, and He passed from one to another
He broke it, giving each morsel saying. Take;
again giving thanks, and passing 1t from one to
another He said: This is my blood OF the new
covenant, which is shed for many for the re- e
Institution. This do in remembrance Of me-,
MOSAIC FROM COMMENTARIES.
Where wilt Thou? Disciples took it for granted
He wished to keep up observance.-Hoss.
man: disciple. perhaps unknown to the.
apostles.-Cook
Made ready: Purchased the lamb. unleavened
bread bitter herbs. and the conserve of sweet
fruits,-Plumptre.
One of you: Consciousness of the traitors pres
ence so wrought upon Him that He broke forth
in words of yet palmer prediction.-Maelear
Is IL /? Perhaps had they not been disturbed
preaching in the terrible form of treachery, they
might have guessed the man.-Whedon.
He that dippeth: Double-dyed treachery, NOT
only against his Master, but against the strictest
law of Eastern observation-disclosures
shed for many One for many. lie died for an
as outward matter of fact; but as matter OF In
dvidual participation, the great multitude whom
no man can number.-Alford.
Until that day: He will not drink the symbolieal
wine but will wait until he drink the real
wine which this typifies, in the heavenly king
dom.-Whedon.
THE TEACHERS CULVER
The anachronism OF Da Vincis famous fresco
is obvious. He represents Jesus ana the twelve
sitting at a modern extension table They did
not sit at all It was the reclining on the couch.
with the head toward the table. that made the
foot washing easy. and the laying Of Johns head
In Jesus bosom natural.
Sadness of the Last Supper must not be en-
phasfzed disproportonately. Jesus would not let
the festive character be wholly lost. 1t was
goodly scene--gay -eoored turbans animated faces
Spite of somber incident joyous converse ex-
tended through many hours.
Presence of Judas was only ugly spot. Jesus
that they might know He was aware of His inn
pending fate. He did II for Judass sake also. IL
was His last appeal to the traitor.
This upper room. endeared TO the apostles
hearts. probably witnessed the appearance OF the
risen Christ and the effuson of the Holy Ghost.
Ii was the cradle of the infant church
The various names by which the Lord supper
Is known in themselves very Significant:
Eucharist" meaning good thanks; 'Sacra-
ment" sacramentum, pledge OF featy 10 our
Leader; Communion, communis, sign of the
intercourse and agreement We have with God and
each other.