He said to them, "I have longed eagerly to eat this passover with you before I suffer,
I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,
and when the hour came he took his place, with the apostles beside him.
for I tell you I will never eat the passover again till the fulfilment of it in the Reign of God."