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Luke
  
8And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."9So they said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare?"10And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters.11Then you shall say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"’12Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready."13So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.


Jesus knew that the traitor began his attempts, inquiring beforehand about the place in which his Master would meet with his disciples apart from the people that he might deliver him easily and silently to the hands of his enemies.
Yet, the Son of God was determined to spend the last evening of his life on earth joyfully with his disciples, to make with them the holy new covenant.
He did not tell Peter and John exactly about the place of the room in which he wanted to meet with them, but guided them with his prophetic insight in the midst of the crowds of people and pilgrims to a man carrying a pitcher of water on his head. It was unusual for a man to carry water, for such work was relegated to the women of the household who carried the pitchers, filled them from the spring, and brought them back on their heads up the high stairs to their homes on the mountain of Jerusalem.
This man was humble. He served his family by himself, and carried the heavy load unashamedly before the many women and pilgrims around him.
Jesus foresaw him with his eye of prophecy, as he had already foreseen all the events of that day with extreme exactness. He was not only a prophet, but also the Omniscient himself. He had infallible knowledge of all things distant and future, of all thoughts, words, and acts of men before their occurrence. Moreover, he never forgets the past, and your life is obviously uncovered before him with all its details.
As the two disciples obeyed the word of Christ, believing it, and went into the crowded lanes of the city, they saw the man whom Jesus described to them. He had furnished and prepared his house guided by the Holy Spirit, and made ready the pillows and cushions, expecting the visit of the guest of God. His house became the first church, in which the Son of God made his new covenant with his followers with great joy.
We do not read that the two disciples killed a lamb for the Passover in the temple, and roasted it in the house of the man to whom Jesus sent them, for they were persecuted, and blacklisted together with their Master. This is why we read in the reports of the first Lord’s Supper that the only things Jesus served them with were only wine, bitter herbs, and bread. Christ celebrated the Passover beforehand as someone who is rejected by the nation. He had the supper as a criminal who had no right to slay a lamb for himself and his disciples in the temple. In fact Jesus had no need of a lamb to reconcile himself with God, for he himself was the sinless Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. Nevertheless he continued in his patience and joy, and offered his disciples not only one cup of wine, but a number of cups according to the rites of the festival, for the Passover was the day of the great joy because of the salvation from God’s wrath.