In Luke 22:7–23, we arrive for supper. Not the Lord's Table to share in the sign, but to the text that describes Jesus' final meal, a pattern he established for the church to repeat. Why a meal? Why a meal at that time? Why a meal with those people, his disciples? And why a meal with bread and a cup? While his opponents lay plans for his killing, Jesus takes control of events to see that his death is remembered for all that it is: a substitutionary atonement for sin.