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“18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) 19And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.” Ge 14:18–20 Abram …
Communion, also known as the Lord’s Supper, the breaking of bread and Eucharist (thanksgiving), is a ceremony instituted by Jesus on Holy Thursday in conjunction with the Jewish Passover meal. The Lord’s Supper is originally a “love meal” in which believers gather to eat together, with the bread of the meal symbolizing the body of Christ and the wine symbolizing …
1 Cor 11:17-22 The original Eucharist was not a ceremony inside a church building where people queued up to see a priest who handed out a wafer to be dipped in a cup of wine. No, the original communion was a ceremony in the context of a meal (Matt 26:26-30, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-20, Acts 2:42-47), as is evident from …
Mark 14:22 Giving thanks to God, breaking the bread and then distributing it to each person was a common way to begin a meal (Matthew 14:9). The Passover meal also had a number of words recited to commemorate Israel’s exodus from Egypt. That the bread is “broken” and given to “all” symbolizes that Jesus died for all humanity. The fact …