The Historical Construction of the Supper

In the New Testament, we should be shocked by the full ease of defining the life in the first church. We are blessed with a wide image of the existence of the church, but many of our annoying things are not affected by the New Testament. Eventually the observable church lost its initial simplicity and fell into a conflict of church machine and theological speculation. The Lord's Supper is a precedent. In the rough New Testament data, this order is very easy.

According to my Gospel, the last supper was Wednesday. My argument is based on a combination of biblical, historical, and astronomical studies. At first glance, the four Gospels appear to contradict the day of the last dinner. But they use different calendars. I do not believe that I reached the age of 76. According to the provisions of Cambridge, I have to retire as soon as possible. The retirement age is not my consent. Lucky and healthy people like myself may still be doing a lot of contributions. I have already received projects from several universities both in Japan and overseas.

Historically, various attempts have been made to coordinate three summary accounts with John. Several of them were pointed out about the last supper at Francis Mesman's 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia. Maundy's Thursday's church tradition assumes that the last supper was held on a crucified night (strictly speaking, it was clear that the meal was done on the night before Jesus died, without the Gospel did). A new approach to this contrast was adopted when belief that Annie Jobert had two schedule of Passover after the discovery of Kumran in the 1950s. One night died, and also used the sun calendar like the Essene community of Kumran, a Passover Festival that begins on Tuesday night.

So the historical origin of the Lord's Supper is the last dinner we ate with his disciples the evening before Jesus was crucified. Its behavior and meaning are rooted in what Jesus said last night. Jesus himself is the origin of the Lord's Supper. He ordered it to continue. And he is its focus and content. The Lord's Supper is the act of those who believe in Jesus, the people of the Church. This is not an act of unbelievers. There may be unbelievers - in fact, we welcome their participation - there is no secret about the Lord's Supper. It is done in public. It has a public meaning. It is not a secret with magical powers, it is not a ceremony either. This is the public worship of the gathered church. Indeed, in the first Corinthians chapter 11:26 Paul said, "You often eat this cake and drink a cup and you declare the death of the Lord until he comes." So there is a declaration of dinner. Not a privacy statement, the declaration is a strike note