Mark 14:12-15
On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
When subsequent events
drown out intention
And a quiet meal with friends
becomes a mere backdrop
to a politically charged execution
that eclipses the intimacy
of final teaching and preparation
for a life of discipleship
Something is lost
in the detail
of careful preparation
of hospitality writ large
Hospitality
that went beyond
the jostling festival crowds
to carve out space
for mutual encounter
in which true meeting is possible
