Roughly 25 years or so after the events that are recorded for us in John 13 though the Gospel of John was still decades away, at least in its written form, Paul wrote a letter to the Corinthian Christians in which he said, "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

Now as you know there are a number of important world changing covenants in Israel's story, but to date, that is before Jesus appearance in the world there had only been one new covenant called that just once by the prophet Jeremiah--Jeremiah 31:31. "Behold, the days are coming, declares Yahweh when I will make a new covenant (I will actually cut a new covenant) with the House of Israel and the House of Judah..." And if we were to read on in that passage, we would see quickly that Jeremiah's new covenant is set over and against the covenant that Yahweh made at Mount Sinai what he calls my covenant that they broke though I was their husband. And you will recall that covenant when it was made, it was attended by roughly the equivalent of 1,000 4th of July fireworks events...