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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,...

Oddly enough, the English word Passover comes to us not from Jewish quarters but from the great English translator of the Bible, William Tyndale. It was apparently Tyndale who coined the word Passover as a term that sounded something like the Hebrew pesah. In some respects Christians have the same trouble distinguishing the Last Supper from the Lord’s Supper that early Jews sometimes had distinguishing the events of the Passover in Egypt recorded in Exodus 12:1–13 from the later celebration of those
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