ongoing sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, for Jesus instructed his disciples to keep on doing this “in remembrance of me” (v. 24). It is appropriate to note that this is the earliest recorded retelling of the Last Supper. (Most scholars regard the Gospels as written at least ten years later.) Of the three renditions of the institution of the Lord’s Supper in the Synoptic Gospels (Mt 26:26–28; Mk 14:22–24; Lk 22:17–20), Paul’s words are closest to those of his traveling companion Luke. Only Luke records
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