Believing that the last supper shared by Jesus and the disciples was a Passover meal, there would have been strict dietary requirements. Round loaves of Italian bread would not have been on the menu.

Jesus and his disciples were celebrating the Passover meal together. As this was the last meal that Jesus would share with his disciples, he took elements of the Passover meal and made them ...

The Jewish Passover festival is celebrated annually during the month of Nisan (in the spring). It remembers the Exodus – how God rescued the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt The main focus of ...

The last supper is actually eaten before the beginning of passover. So that the sequence of events leading up to the actual crucifixion are very different for John's gospel. And one has to look at ...

Later the disciples realized that in giving them the bread and pronouncing it His body, Jesus Himself had been the Passover lamb at the Last Supper. Thus Jesus, our Passover lamb, was sacrificed ...

During the Last Supper, Jesus offers himself as the Passover sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb, and teaches that every ordained priest is to follow the same sacrifice in the exact same way.

For those who are unfamiliar with the biblical event, the “Last Supper” was the final meal that Jesus shared with his disciples (close followers) before he was crucified. In keeping with the Jewish ...