7 When the day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread arrived, the day
for sacrificing the Passover lamb, 8 he sent out Peter and John,
instructing them, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the
Passover.” 9 They asked him, “Where do you want us to make the
preparations?” 10 And he answered them, “When you go into the
city, a man will meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him into
the house that he enters 11 and say to the master of the house,
‘The teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat
the Passover with my disciples?”’ 12 He will show you a large
upper room that is furnished. Make the preparations there.” 13
Then they went off and found everything exactly as he had told
them, and there they prepared the Passover.
14 When the hour came, he took his place at table with the
apostles. 15 He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this
Passover with you before I suffer, 16 for, I tell you, I shall not
eat it [again] until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17 Then he took a cup,* gave thanks, and said, “Take this and
share it among yourselves; 18 for I tell you [that] from this time
on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of
God comes.” 19 Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke
it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be
given for you; do this in memory of me.” 20 And likewise the cup
after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my
blood, which will be shed for you.
22 While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” 23 Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, “Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you
are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate
the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not work for food that perishes
but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of
Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
28 So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of
God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of
God, that you believe in the one he sent.” 30 So they said to him,
“What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What
can you do? 31 Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is
written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not
Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true
bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes
down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 35 Jesus
said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will
never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. 36 But
I told you that although you have seen [me], you do not believe.
37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will
not reject anyone who comes to me, 38 because I came down from
heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
39 And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not
lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it [on]
the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone
who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I
shall raise him [on] the last day.”
41 The Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread
that came down from heaven,” 42 and they said, “Is this not Jesus,
the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how
can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered and
said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. 44 No one can come
to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him
on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all
be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns
from him comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Amen,
amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the
bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but
they died; 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven so
that one may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that
came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the
world.”
52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man
give us [his] flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I
say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him
on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is
true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains
in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I
have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down
from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever
eats this bread will live forever.” 59 These things he said while
teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
The Words of Eternal Life.
60 Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This
saying is hard; who can accept it?” 61 Since Jesus knew that his
disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this
shock you? 62 What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to
where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that gives life, while
the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are
spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.”
Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and
the one who would betray him. 65 And he said, “For this reason I
have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him
by my Father.”
66 As a result of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their
former way of life and no longer accompanied him. 67 Jesus then
said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” 68 Simon Peter
answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of
eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and are convinced that
you are the Holy One of God.”
28 As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. 29 But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. 31 With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. 32 Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” 33 So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them 34 who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
23 Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, 24 leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
An Abuse at Corinth.
17 In giving this instruction, I do not praise the fact that your
meetings are doing more harm than good. 18 First of all, I hear
that when you meet as a church there are divisions among you, and
to a degree I believe it; 19 there have to be factions among you
in order that (also) those who are approved among you may become
known. 20 When you meet in one place, then, it is not to eat the
Lord’s supper, 21 for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own
supper, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk. 22 Do you
not have houses in which you can eat and drink? Or do you show
contempt for the church of God and make those who have nothing
feel ashamed? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this
matter I do not praise you.
Tradition of the Institution.
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that
the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, 24
and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my
body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the
same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new
covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and
drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord
unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.
28 A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink
the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the
body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many
among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
31 If we discerned ourselves, we would not be under judgment; 32
but since we are judged by [the] Lord, we are being disciplined so
that we may not be condemned along with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for
one another. 34 If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so
that your meetings may not result in judgment. The other matters I
shall set in order when I come.
The Wedding at Cana.
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the
mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples were also
invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran short, the mother of
Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 [And] Jesus said to her,
“Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet
come.” 5 His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells
you.” 6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish
ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7
Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them
to the brim. 8 Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it
to the headwaiter.” So they took it. 9 And when the headwaiter
tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it
came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the
headwaiter called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone
serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an
inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 Jesus
did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so
revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
The Feeding of the Four Thousand.
32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “My heart is moved with
pity for the crowd, for they have been with me now for three days
and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry,
for fear they may collapse on the way.” 33 The disciples said to
him, “Where could we ever get enough bread in this deserted place
to satisfy such a crowd?” 34 Jesus said to them, “How many loaves
do you have?” “Seven,” they replied, “and a few fish.” 35 He
ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. 36 Then he took the
seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke the loaves, and gave
them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. 37
They all ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left
over—seven baskets full. 38 Those who ate were four thousand men,
not counting women and children.
3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 The Jewish feast of Passover was near. 5 When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” 6 He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. 12 When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” 13 So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. 14 When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”
Promulgation of the Passover.
21 Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go
and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover
victims. 22 Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the
blood that is in the basin, apply some of this blood to the lintel
and the two doorposts. And none of you shall go outdoors until
morning. 23 For when the LORD goes by to strike down the
Egyptians, seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts,
the LORD will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come
into your houses to strike you down.
24 “You will keep this practice forever as a statute for
yourselves and your descendants. 25 Thus, when you have entered
the land which the LORD will give you as he promised, you must
observe this rite. 26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this
rite of yours mean?’ 27 you will reply, ‘It is the Passover
sacrifice for the LORD, who passed over the houses of the
Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he
delivered our houses.’”
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household. 4 If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes. 5 Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. 6 You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight. 7 They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
2 Here in the wilderness the whole Israelite community grumbled
against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only
we had died at the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by
our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us
into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!”
The Quail and the Manna.
4 Then the LORD said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from
heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their
daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow
my instructions or not.
31 The house of Israel named this food manna. It was like
coriander seed, white, and it tasted like wafers made with honey.
32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded. Keep a full
omer of it for your future generations, so that they may see the
food I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of
the land of Egypt.” 33 Moses then told Aaron, “Take a jar and put
a full omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to keep
it for your future generations.” 34 As the LORD had commanded
Moses, Aaron placed it in front of the covenant to keep it.
35 The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came
to settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders
of Canaan.
24 God rained manna upon them for food; grain from heaven he gave them. 25 Man ate the bread of the angels; food he sent in abundance.
17 When Abram returned from his defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to greet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 18 Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of God Most High. 19 He blessed Abram with these words: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.