In Luke 22, Jesus gathers His disciples for Passover, but the moment does not stay “old covenant” for long. What starts as a careful celebration in a crowded, tense Jerusalem turns into something new. Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper and, in doing so, makes a covenantal statement that reaches far beyond the supper table.

At the center of it all is a simple but weighty idea: new covenant members are people whose sins have been forgiven . The Lord’s Supper is not a repeat of Passover as if the old covenant pattern is still the framework. It is a new ordinance for a new covenant household – the household of faith.