And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
While they were eating, Jesus picked up some bread, said a blessing over it, broke it apart, and handed it to his disciples. He told them, 'Take this and eat it, this is my body.'
Jesus turned a simple meal into something sacred, giving himself completely to the people he loved.
📚 Historical Context
This verse takes place during the Last Supper, a meal Jesus shared with his twelve disciples in Jerusalem on the evening before his crucifixion, as part of the Jewish Passover celebration. The Passover was an annual feast remembering God's deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and it involved sharing bread and wine as symbols of God's provision. In this moment, Jesus transformed the traditional Passover elements to point to his own death, using the bread to represent his body that would be given for humanity's redemption.
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