Seems every time I go to church I hear something that I hadn't ever heard before.

This time was talking about the last Supper and the actual big meaning of that. (forgive me if I get something wrong in the details) Since that was the night before Passover, that night was supposed to be a fast. In Jewish tradition, though, when a rabbi finished teaching a group, he was allowed to have a feast. And since Jesus knew he was done with teaching the disciples, and that he wasn't returning (in the same capacity, that is) to continue teaching them, that was the major reason for the feast of the Last Supper, to signify the end of their being students.

Also-- in the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus asked Peter and the others to stand watch-- that was significant because a teacher was head-and-shoulders above the students. Rabbis wouldn't ask a student to do something like that unless something BIG was going on; the students were/are supposed to look to the rabbi for everything. (And, well, something BIG was going on, but the disciples weren't aware of the scope of it.)

And another thing that they mentioned-- many of the decisions the disciples made-- not so intelligent, in hindsight. But they weren't educated men, and there's 2000 years of insight to take into account now. They were human.

So anyway. intriguing stuff. yep.