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The conventional view of scholars has tended to be that the Last Supper, as recorded in the New Testament, was both the source and the pattern for the early Christian Eucharist. ‘Eucharistic Origins’ argues that, while the eucharistic sayings of Jesus did play an important part in shaping the beliefs of many early Christian communities: • the actual forms of their liturgical celebrations were...

The majority of modern New Testament scholars postulate that the narratives as we have them are the products of two early versions of the Last Supper tradition, one represented by the more Semitic style in Mark and Matthew and thought to stem from Jerusalem, and an Antiochene version found in the more Hellenistic form of Luke and Paul. Matthew not only reveals a general literary dependency on Mark but shares with him in particular the opening clause ‘as they
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