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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 26:26

as: Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19 Jesus: Luke 24:30, 1 Corinthians 11:23-Lamentations : blessed it: "Many Greek copies have gave thanks." Mark 6:41 and brake: Acts 2:46, Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 10:17 Take: John 6:33-Habakkuk :, John 6:47-Hebrews :, 1 Corinthians 11:26-Joel : this: Ezekiel 5:4, Ezekiel 5:5, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 10:4, 1 Corinthians 10:16, Galatians 4:24, Galatians 4:25 Reciprocal: Genesis 9:12 - General Genesis 14:18 - bread Genesis 40:12 - The three... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 26:26

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.Jesus took the bread — the bread or cake, which the master of the family used to divide among them, after they had eaten the passover. The custom our Lord now transferred to a nobler use. This bread is, that is, signifies or represents my body, according to the style of the sacred writers. Thus Genesis 40:12, The three branches are three days. Thus... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 26:26

26. As they were eating When in the course of the paschal supper they arrived at the breaking of bread, as we have above described. The bread was in the form of cakes. The breaking, under the old dispensation, represented the breaking which Israel suffered in Egypt; but in the new, the breaking is transferred to the victim, who assumes our sins and sufferings in his own body. The breaking was the customary mode of separating bread into parts; yet it was none the less a significant part of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 26:26-29

§§ 126, 128. INSTITUTION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, Matthew 26:26-29 We come now to words which have sounded forth through the Church through all ages since our Lord’s departure, and which are to sound forth until he comes again. The nature of the Lord’s Supper is best understood when we recollect that it is, under the Christian dispensation, the continuance in a modified form of the passover of the Old Testament. As baptism is the modified ordinance of circumcision, as the Lord’s day is a... read more

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 26:26

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 26:26

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 26:26

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 26:26-29

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