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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) Through the Shadows of Death (the night before the end...) Now Jesus said to them (tells the Scholar, probably meaning as they were preparing to leave the Upper Room), "When I sent you out without a purse and bag and shoes, you did not lack anything, did you?" And they said, "Nothing." (Or possibly, 'Yet they say nothing...') And He said to them, "But now, let him who has a purse go get it; likewise a bag as well; and whoever doesn't have one, let him sell his cloak and buy a sword! "For I tell you: this, which is written (in Isaiah), must be fulfilled in Me: 'And with rebels He is numbered.' For this concerning Me is also having its fulfillment." And they said, "Master, look! Here are two swords!" And He said to them, "...

Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) The Body and the Blood (the night before the end...) When the hour had come (to celebrate the seder service, tell the Disciple and Scholar and Follower), He reclined (at the table to eat--this is after the 'normal' feast of the night), and the apostles with Him (except for Judas, who has already left). And He said to them: "I have truly, deeply desired to eat this Passover with you--before I suffer. "For I am telling you: I never shall eat it again, till this is fulfilled in the kingdom of God!" And when He had taken bread (bitter and unleavened by sin yet striped by sin, some of which will be hidden to be recovered later), having blessed and given thanks, He broke and gave to them, saying (in a new response to the traditional question "What is this bread?"...