and the cup are a koinōnia, “participation” (RSV, NIV) or “communion” (KJV, JB) or “means of sharing” (NEB), in or with the blood and body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:16).2 Whether the last meal that Jesus ate with the Twelve was a Passover meal is a matter of dispute. Gustaf Dalman,3 Joachim Jeremias,4 Markus Barth,5 F. J. Leenhardt,6 Ethelbert Stauffer,7 A. J. B. Higgins,8 I Howard Marshall,9 and Andrew Paris (1947–)10 have contended that it was, whereas Maurice Goguel,
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