Bible Question: In John 13:26. Jesus dipped bread into the sauce and gave it to Judas. Is this act part of the Lord's Supper(communion)? I was in a church where the communion service was conducted by asking Christians to come forward and take a piece of bread and dip it into the cup of grape juice and eat it as a rememberance of the death and burial of Christ. |
Bible Answer: Grampa, John 13:26 would seem more a discription of the common practice in ancient and even modern Near East meals to take bread and dip it into the content of various bowls. It is interesting that John's Gospel does not give a eucharistic institution narrative as do the three synotic Gospels. John focuses more on the foot washing, the discourses and the priestly prayer of Jesus. John seems to address the eucharist in John 6, the bread of life discourses. The other three Gospels say "while they were eating," but St Paul in 1 Cor 11:25 indicates after "after supper." Luke mentions two cups, the second being the cup of eucharistic institution. In some churches communion is taken by intinction, where the bread or host is dipped in the chalice or cup of consecrated wine or grape juice. But I do not believe that is what John is describing in John 13:26. Emmaus |
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