The Last Supper (Thursday Evening)

Common Elements Shared by the Different Accounts:

All three Gospels depict the setting as the Passover meal.
Christ identifies the bread and wine as symbolic representations of His body and blood, respectively.
Each account emphasizes the establishment of a new covenant.
All include the prediction of betrayal by one present.
They all describe Jesus giving thanks (blessing) and distributing the bread and wine among His disciples.

Mark provides a concise, action-oriented account focused on immediacy and prophetic fulfillment, with fewer explanatory elements.
Matthew emphasizes the fulfillment of prophecy and directly connects Christ’s actions to Israel's Passover tradition.
Luke uniquely emphasizes relational intimacy, adding the phrase, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you" (Luke 22:15). Luke also explicitly mentions the cup twice, framing the meal around deep relational symbolism.

Mark’s account, as the earliest, presents a straightforward narrative focusing on immediate prophetic fulfillment and direct symbolism—Christ’s body and blood given sacrificially.
Matthew later recognizes deeper typological connections between Israel’s Passover tradition and Christ's sacrificial role, expanding on the prophetic elements to emphasize Jesus as Israel's true Passover Lamb.
Luke, having more time and awareness of Christ's universal and relational ministry, emphasizes the emotional and relational depth, portraying Christ as deeply desiring communion with humanity, represented through His earnest desire to share this meal.

Highlights urgency and prophetic immediacy. His concise style underscores Christ’s authoritative action in instituting the new covenant swiftly and decisively.

Explicitly connects Christ’s actions to the fulfillment of Old Testament typology and prophecy. Matthew’s account strongly emphasizes Christ as the fulfillment of Israel’s story and prophetic narrative.

Presents unique relational insights emphasizing intimacy and the universal significance of Christ's sacrifice. He also highlights the role of covenant through repeated emphasis on sharing ("take and divide it among yourselves").

Exodus 24:6-8 likely reminded Matthew of the institution of a covenant with blood ("Behold the blood of the covenant"). Matthew explicitly uses covenantal language, mirroring the Sinai covenant where blood sealed God’s promises, now fulfilled in Christ’s new covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 would have reminded Matthew of the prophecy of the New Covenant, predicting a day when God would directly write His law on the hearts of His people, fulfilled symbolically and literally in Jesus' blood.

Genesis 14:18-20 (Melchizedek): Luke’s emphasis on universal inclusion and intimacy may have recalled Melchizedek's universal priesthood offering bread and wine to Abraham, symbolizing peace and covenant fellowship beyond ethnic boundaries.
Genesis 49:11 (Prophecy to Judah): The prophecy "binding his foal to the vine...washed garments in wine, robes in the blood of grapes" foreshadows Christ as King from Judah, whose blood (wine) brings cleansing and new covenantal life.

You highlight a deeper sensus plenior, interpreting bread as Christ's pure, divine revelation (body untouched by human teaching), and wine symbolizing the blood as life poured out through divine justice and mercy united in Christ.
Your insight uniquely sees the Passover meal as a profound theological revelation: Christ, the untaught Bread of Heaven, offering Himself fully (bread/body and wine/blood) as the ultimate expression of divine justice and mercy.
You emphasize relational intimacy, seeing Luke’s repeated reference to sharing as the spiritual communion Christ desires with His church.