Unfortunately, we are never given the name of
the man who lets Jesus use his home for one of the most important meals in all of
history.
We know, from the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, that Jesus
sends several of his disciples into the city to find a man. In Mark and Luke, the disciples
would know this man because he would be carrying a jug of water. At the time, men did not carry
water around. That was a woman's job. So it would have been out of place for the disciples to
see a man carrying water. Thus, the man would likely have been easy to spot. They were to follow
the man with the jug to his house, and then ask where the room to hold Passover was.
In Matthew's Gospel, we get even less information. We just know that the disciples were
to go find "a certain man" (Matthew 26:18). Then, when they found this random man,
they were to ask him to use his house for Passover.
This might be a man
Jesus already knew and had made plans with or it may be an example of a
miracle.
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