Next Sunday is Passion Sunday, or more commonly called "Palm Sunday." And in the Mass Readings for Palm Sunday, the Church has us read through the triumphal entry, the Last Supper, and the Passion and death of Jesus.

One interesting aspect of Luke's account is what Jesus says to Peter and the Apostles at the Last Supper. In addition to the famous narrative to Matthew 16 that helps lay the foundation for Jesus' intention to have Peter as the chief of his Apostles, praying especially for Peter to strengthen his brother apostles and so that Peter's faith will not fail as found in Luke's account of the Last Supper is another place we find the Biblical foundation for the primacy of Peter as chief of the Apostles.

Notable Quote:
"So notice here something really significant about Luke’s account. First, Luke (and Luke alone) tells us that during the Last Supper, Jesus appoints a share in his royal identity as king to the twelve apostles. Literally in the Greek, what Jesus says here, “As my father covenanted the kingdom for me, so I covenant to you, that you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” So, effectively what Jesus is doing is constituting (in the figure of the Apostles) a new Israel, where they will rule over this new Israel, sitting on twelve thrones. Secondly, notice also that within these twelve Apostles who are going to reign over the new Israel, Simon Peter has pride of place. And it’s easy to miss that if you read it in English, but in Greek it’s really clear..."

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