The Last Supper Greek God Essay

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2. ITS MEANING (ETYMOLOGY)
“ Lord’s Supper” is derived from the Greek words Kyriakon deipnon where Kyriakon originated form Kyrios which means Lord and Kyriakon means that which ‘belongs to the Lord’ or ‘owned by the Lord’ (Klauck 362). Deipnon is what is known as the main meal of the Greeks, besides it was also referred to in relation to a feast or festival.
3. RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS
At the centre of the Jewish tradition is the annual feast of the Passover. Luis M. Berjamo in Body Broken and Blood Shed indicated that a closer examination of “Exodus 12 reveals that the Passover seems to have been made up of two originally independent feast: the feast of the Passover proper and that of Matzoth of Unleavened Bread” (3). Both the …show more content…

The Synoptic Gospel appears to assert that the “meal is Passover meal, taken on the evening before the festival; therefore for them the trial and crucifixion take place on the Passover” (Jones 197). However, Paul’s account “of what Jesus did and said at the Last Supper tells about the very beginnings of the Eucharist. As a liturgical formula, the story also tells what Christians repeated every time they assembled ‘as a church’ at ‘the table of the Lord’ ‘to eat the Lord’s Supper’” (LaVerdiere 21). Therefore those who were at the Last supper did what Jesus instructed them to do and which is what exactly they did every time they meet and commemorate the Lord’s Supper. Furthermore, in the Gospel of John, we find that Jesus was crucified before the Passover, as Joachim Jeremias mentioned in The Eucharistic Words of Jesus that “at the time of Jesus accusation before Pilate the Passover lambs had not yet been eaten, the crucifixion of Jesus occurred… [on] the day of preparation. The Last Supper was therefore not a Passover meal” (19). Paul’s account appears to hold water as “situating the Lord’s Supper ‘on the night he (the Lord Jesus) was handed over’ suggest that what the early Christian remembers at the Lord’s Supper was his passion and death, together with the resurrection” (LaVerdiere 22). Eugene LaVerdiere commented that “It is not so much that the historical experience of the Last Supper demanded that be a Lord‘s Supper. Rather it is the Christian, Eucharistic experience of the Lord’s Supper that brought the Last supper to mind. Consequently, it is not the Lord’s Super that was patterned on Jesus’ last Supper, but the story of the Last Supper which was patterned on the Lord’s Supper”

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