Mark 14:22

The First Lord's Supper

22 As they were eating, He took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take [it]; ^[a] this is My body."

Mark 14:22 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:22

And as they did eat
The paschal lamb, and the unleavened bread, just at the conclusion of that feast: Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it;
beginning and instituting a new feast, to be kept in aftertimes, in commemoration of his sufferings and death, now near at hand; and gave to them,
the disciples, and said, take, eat:
the word eat is not in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and is wanting in some copies: this is body;
a figure and representation of it; (See Gill on Matthew 26:26).

Mark 14:22 In-Context

20 He said to them, "[It is] one of the Twelve-the one who is dipping [bread] with Me in the bowl.

21 For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

22 As they were eating, He took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take [it]; this is My body."

23 Then He took a cup, and after giving thanks, He gave it to them, and so they all drank from it.

24 He said to them, "This is My blood [that establishes] the covenant; it is shed for many.

Footnotes

• [a]. Other mss add eat;