Simon Peters, Project Manager for Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today, the United Reformed Church’s focus on lifelong missional discipleship, uses Matthew 26:17-30 to offer this reflection for Maundy Thursday.
In the same way we might think of Sunday lunch or Christmas dinner, the Passover meal and all its associated rituals and traditions would have been known well to the disciples, and the opportunity to celebrate it together with the Son of God, their respected leader and teacher, would have made it all the more special.