Christ’s institution of Holy Communion at the Last Supper. The problem of discriminating between the time-bound and the permanent is one that will recur throughout this book. Not all of the Bible is great literature. Some parts are plainly pedestrian and some downright boring (for example, 1 Chronicles 1–8). Yet much of its writing is profound and touches us at very deep levels. In the English-speaking world, the King James Version (AV) contains some of the most moving and best loved passages in