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NASB | Matthew 26:26 ¶ While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 26:26 ¶ Now as they were eating Jesus took bread, and after blessing it, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." [Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:17-20; 1 Cor 11:23-25] |
Subject: What was the blessing? |
Bible Note: Thank you Hank, That's how I saw it too, until I learned from a Jewish believer in the Messiah that the blessing practiced before the Passover meal, is a standard prayer which has been said over the bread every Seder for thousands of years. The blessing is: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth" There is a prophetic connection between the blessing and what Jesus was saying regarding "take, eat, this is my body." God has been bringing forth bread from the earth since the beginning of creation, and this bread, as He just told us, represents His body. God will bring His body forth from the earth! In effect, Jesus foretold His resurrection in that blessing over the bread! Just as He foretold His resurrection at other times prior to the supper. Christ is, the Bread of Life. When we partake of the Bread of Life, the communion for example, as a rememberence, where is that bread now? It is in us. It is a visual aid that we are the body of Christ. Christ in you, the hope of glory. 1 Cor.10:16-17...The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread and one body: for we are all partakers of that One Bread. Christ is that Bread that came down from Heaven, He is that Bread of Life that came forth from the earth. He is the Bread of Life that dwells in all those that have been born again, born of the Spirit. Can you see it? We have become the body of Christ here on earth. Christ is the Head. "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."...1 Cor.12:27 Having said that, we should look forward to each time that we can participate in the Lord's Supper. When its true meaning is celebrated while breaking off a portion of the bread and eating it with other believers, we should be reminded of Christ and His life we share as symbolized by the one loaf. It is a beautiful picture of God's plan of unification in Love and in Spirit, to make one body, or one new man, out of both Jew and Gentile. It is a celebration of what Christ has done and the "Unity" we share in Him. I felt that this was an appropriate time, for these words to be shared, to help build up and edify the body of Christ. For He is Risen, and He is alive, through the Spirit in each one of us, His body, His church, His bride! YBIC...Joe P.S. Hank...Keep up the good work that God has given you with the "Bible Answer Man" with a patient and loving heart, that comes from Him who dwells in you. |
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