When you enter the land that the L ORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. The Lord instructed Moses: "This is a day you are to commemorate for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the L ORD - a lasting ordinance. And Passover itself is designed as a feast of remembrance. Of course, the Lord's Supper was born in the midst of a Passover feast When repeated often, doesn't the Lord's Supper run the risk of becoming mundane and lose its meaning? Why did Jesus command its repetition? The Lord's Supper is that ordinance which is celebrated again and again when Christians gather in memory of Jesus' death. The Last Supper is the single, unrepeatable historical event that took place the night before Jesus' crucifixion. The Scripture indicates that it was the early church's practice to celebrate the Lord's Supper "on the first day of the week" (Acts 20:7). In other words, Jesus' command to "do this" means that we disciples are to continue this action. The context in 1 Corinthians would mean eating bread and drinking wine in a way that is related to Christ's body and blood, that is Jesus' death.
It denotes an action, "to undertake or do something that brings about an event, state, or condition, do, cause, bring about, accomplish, prepare, etc." 3 The context in Luke would be breaking and distributing bread that had a relationship to Christ's body. Present Imperative: "Do this and keep on doing it."īy the present imperative in both Luke and 1 Corinthians, we understand that Jesus intends that his disciples should continue to "do this."ĭo what? This verb poieō is more than thinking. The present imperative has a "durative force." 2 Present tense can carry the idea of continuous action in the present. Often itĮxpresses a singular, punctiliar point in time. Let me explain the difference:Īorist is a Greek tense which emphasizes the occurrence of anĪction, with no regard to its progress or duration. But the command, "do this," is a Present Imperative. Jesus' commands in Mark and Matthew, "take, eat, etc." and in Luke "take, divide among yourselves" (22:17) are Aorist Imperative verbs in Greek. Let's look at this command carefully: "This is my body given for you do this in remembrance of me." (Luke 22:19b) But the account in Luke, carefully recorded from eyewitness testimony, relates an additional element of the Last Supper that night - a command to repeat this act perpetually, "until he comes." The Command to "Do This" Continually (Luke 22:19b) The first two synoptic Gospels, Matthew and Mark, relate the historical event of the Lord's Supper: This is my body, this is my blood. In this lesson we consider his command to continue this observance into the future. In chapter 1 we considered Jesus' interpretation of the bread as his body and the wine as his blood. Proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." (1 Corinthians 11:23-26) "This is my body given for you do this in remembrance of me." (Luke 22:19b) " 23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you do this in remembrance of me.' 25In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.' 26For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you Supper" (1450), Tempera on wood, Museo di San Marco, Florence, Fra Angelico (Italian painter, c.1395-1455),
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