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Making a Meal of It explores the background and implication of the Lord’s Supper. Delving into its historical and Scriptural origins, Witherington argues that the Lord’s Supper is a sacramental celebration of the community of God, designed to incorporate people of varying backgrounds. Excavating the diverse ways in which Scripture and early Christian tradition speak about the Lord’s Supper,...

person. We have a clever wordplay at verse 23 between Passover (pesah) and door (pethah). As is only appropriate after all this, the Israelites respond with a sign of worship—bowing down before Yahweh. It needs to be stressed at this point that the celebration of Passover during and well before Jesus’ era was not seen as the mere celebrating of a memorial meal of purely symbolic value. When we hear about the current celebrants’ considering themselves part of the original exodus story (a sort of “we
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