(~) Bible Readings for Maundy Thursday

Exodus 12:1-14a
1 Corinthians 11:23-26(27-32)
John 13:1-15
or Luke 22:14-30


Old Testament Exodus 12:1-14a

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall
mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the
year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of
this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each
household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its
closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion
to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish,
a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You
shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole
assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They
shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the
lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that
same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted
over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none
of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning
you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your
sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it
hurriedly. It is the passover of the LORD. For I will pass through the
land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I
will execute judgments: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you
on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day
shall be a day of remembrance for you.

The Epistle 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (27-32)

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord
Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he
had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way he took the cup also, after
supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as
often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
[Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.
Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink
judgment against themselves. For this reason many of you ar