What relationship did Jesus’ Last Supper have with the Passover? Or, for that matter, what did Eucharist have to do—in the minds of the first Christians—with the Last Supper, not to mention its Jewish antecedent, the Passover? Scholars have often pondered as to how the practice of Christian Eucharist could have arisen from the Lord’s Supper that occurred in the context of the Jewish Passover. Since Passover arrived once a year, how is it that the Christians got the notion that they could celebrate
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