It is Thursday.  Preparations are underway for the Passover.  The instructions to the disciples sent ahead are mysterious:

“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”

And yet when the disciples came to the city, “they found it just as he had told them…”

Isn’t that the way it always is?  Obedience requires faith in what Jesus is telling us.  And when we believe and do as He asks, it is always as He said it would be.

By Sunday they will know that everything is exactly as He told them it would be.

…he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”

‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
and to take him at his word;
just to rest upon his promise,
and to know, “Thus saith the Lord.”
-Louisa M. R. Stead (1850-1917)

(Scripture quotes are from Mark 14:13-15, 16 and Mark 9:31 ESV)