the washing of feet was an ordinance
pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, the full import of which they had yet
to learn.[1195]

Having resumed His garments and returned to His place at the table,
Jesus impressed the significance of what he had done, saying: "Ye call
me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's
feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done
to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than
his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye
know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."[1196]

THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.[1197]

While Jesus with the Twelve still sat at table, He took a loaf or cake
of bread, and having reverently given thanks and by blessing sanctified
it, He gave a portion to each of the apostles, saying: "Take, eat; this
is my body"; or, according to the more extended account, "This is my
body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me." Then, taking
a cup of wine, He gave thanks and blessed it, and gave it unto them with
the command: "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say
unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until
that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."[1198] In
this simple but impressive manner was instituted the ordinance, since
known as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The bread and wine, duly
consecrated by prayer, become emblems of the Lord's body and blood, to
be eaten and drunk reverently, and in remembrance of Him.

The proceedings at the institution of this sacred rite were afterward
revealed to Paul the apostle, whose recorded testimony as to its
establishment and sanctity is in accord with the accounts given by the
Gospel-writers.[1199] As shall be hereinafter shown, the ordinance was
instituted by the Lord among the Nephites, on the western continent, and
has been reestablished in the present dispensation.[1200] During the
dark ages of apostasy, unauthorized changes in the administration of the
Sacrament were introduced, and many false doctrines as to its meaning
and effect were promulgated.[1201]

THE BETRAYER GOES OUT INTO THE NIGHT.[1202]

In saying to the Twelve, whose feet He had washed, "Ye are clean," the
Lord had specified an exception by His