Warm-up Discussion:

1. What is the meaning of Communion? Please share.

2. What is difference between the bread and the cup of Communion?


Text

Matthew 26:19, 26-27

19 So the disciples did what Jesus had told them to do. They prepared the Passover meal.  ...

26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread. He gave thanks and broke it. He handed it to his disciples and said, “Take this and eat it. This is my body.”

27 Then he took a cup. He gave thanks and handed it to them. He said, “All of you drink from it. 28 This is my blood of the covenant. It is poured out to forgive the sins of many people.


Mark 14:16, 22-24

16 The disciples left and went into the city. They found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover meal.  ...

22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread. He gave thanks and broke it. He handed it to his disciples and said, “Take it. This is my body.”

23 Then he took a cup. He gave thanks and handed it to them. All of them drank from it.

24 “This is my blood of the covenant,” he said to them. “It is poured out for many.


Luke 22:13, 19-20

13 Peter and John left. They found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover meal. ...

19 Then Jesus took bread. He gave thanks and broke it. He handed it to them and said, “This is my body. It is given for you. Every time you eat it, do this in memory of me.”

20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup. He said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. It is poured out for you.


Exodus 12:26-27 (NKJV)

26 And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.


Exodus 24:8-11 (NKJV)

8 And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. 11 But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.


Discussion:

3. What was that meal that Jesus and his disciples ate before His arrest and crucifixion?

4. Why did Jesus take the bread among the food on the table and ask his disciples to remember him with eat ing bread?

5. What does “This is my body. It is given for you. Every time you eat it, do this in memory of me.” mean in Communion.

6. How does Jesus fulfill the Passover?

7. What is the difference between Passover and Communion?

8. How does the cup of the last supper and Jesus’ word echo the event in Exodus 24:

9. What is the meaning of the cup of last supper and Communion?

10. Why do you think the Gospel of John does not mention the Communion like the other Gospels?


John 13:1-5