Then Jesus says to them. The occasion of His saying this was Peter's bold affirmation that he was ready to die with Him ([Referen…

All you will be offended because of me — We may think of these words as being spoken at some early stage of that evening …

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. An…

Origen of Alexandria: When the disciples had eaten the bread of blessing and drunk from the cup of thanksgiving, the Lord ins…

“This very night” makes clear how soon the disciples’ defection and Peter’s denial will happen. The intimacy of the Last Supper is shortly to be re…

You will all be offended at me. What Matthew and Mark extend to all the disciples alike is related by Luke as having been spoken to Peter …

Then says Jesus unto them
Either before they went out of the house, where they had been eating the passover, and the…

Improper self-confidence, like that of Peter, is the first step to a fall. There is a proneness in all of us to be overconfident. But those fall so…

After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…