For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you,
that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,
first Letter of Paul to the church at Corinth 11:23 New English Translation Click here for other translations
Hear, O Isra-el
And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד׃
We suppose here (though possibly not specifically in celebrating this Last Seder) that JESUS at various times during His three-year leading of the Apostles routinely recited Scripture from their Jewish Bible to these Jewish disciples of the Messiah. Excerpts to Bible Translations linked below from: NASB; Somali Bible; Orthodox Jewish Bible;The Westminster Leningrad Codex
Exodus 12:
Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt.. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.. Your lamb shall be an unblemished male.. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month,
then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it at twilight.
Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
They shall eat the flesh that same night.. and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is the Lord’s Passover.
For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and fatally strike all the firstborn…
The Lord’s Supper (Blood of a New Covenant)
and after he had given thanks he broke it and said,
“This is my body, which is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
first Letter of Paul to the church at Corinth 11:24 NLT + Click here for other translations
The Gospel of Matthew
“How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16:11-12 NKJV
The New Covenant of Matthew 26: KJV
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.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
“This cup
is the new covenant
in my blood.
Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me.” – 1 Corinthians 11:25 NET
διαθήκη + a covenant
the last disposition which one makes of his earthly possessions after his death, a testament or will
“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”
And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood. Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and
וַיִּקַּח מֹשֶׁה אֶת־הַדָּם וַיִּזְרֹק עַל־הָעָם וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֵּה דַֽם־הַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר כָּרַת יְהוָה עִמָּכֶם עַל כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃
בְּרִית
covenant, alliance, pledge
- between men
- between God and man
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant H1285 which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:16 KJV
Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, that is, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
Letter to the Hebrews of the Church, redeemed saints of the Messiah, 13:20-21 NASB20
