profoundly new and disturbing. He was saying that he himself was the Passover bread and blood. Paul says this very thing in 1 Corinthians 5:7: “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” So when his followers ate that bread and drank that wine, they were ingesting what would protect them from God’s judgment (now, similar to the children of Israel in Egypt, against Jerusalem at the hand of Rome); that same bread and wine would now liberate them unto new life together — all of them — in the kingdom