according to Acts, Paul was in full contact with the community at Damascus; he was instructed and even began preaching the new faith in the synagogue. It is hardly conceivable that he would not have been instructed about the breaking of the bread. (3) The Greek preposition apo (“from”) in “from the Lord” does not necessarily imply direct communication, as would the preposition para, which Paul omits, contrary to his custom with the verb paralambanō (“receive”) used here. The sense then is “I received