Entertaining the Lord Jesus

You can bring nothing to Him as attractive as a weary, heavy-laden heart. So He was entertained in a double way. He was entertained, no doubt, because of the circumstances. They were broken-hearted, sad, cast down. He accepts the external entertainment set before Him. He went in, and while He sat at meat with them He took the initiative. He can never go into any scene where He is not first and last. But He took, as the head of the house would, the bread into His hands and He broke it and gave to them.
This was not the Lord's Supper. It is most important to have correct thoughts as to the Lord's Supper. It was the ordinary meal they were partaking of here, but nevertheless, it was the breaking of the bread which the Blessed One was pleased to make to their souls, the sign of His death. As He broke that bread before them, the reality of His death on Calvary's cross passed from the symbol in His hands, by His own power in its reality, into their souls. He brought Himself before them, as the One who had been dead.