This Is My Body

Mark 14:22, And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing, it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”

So into the old Passover meal, Jesus inserts something brand new. There are a lot of Christians who think the key to the Supper is in the old Passover, but that is exactly backward. It's the Lord's Supper that is key to the old Passover. And remember how Jesus said earlier you couldn't put new wine into old wineskins or a new piece of cloth on an old cloth that has already been washed, so His Supper isn't just something inserted into the old Passover; it rather brings the Passover to its end at least to those who belong to Him. It explodes it from the inside, and remember they learned Jesus says all kinds of outrageous things, and they have learned that He always means exactly what He says and says exactly what He means.

We are not told they asked a thing, but surely they must have been thinking. Remember back in John 6, after the feeding of the five thousand, the question was asked, "how can this man give us His flesh to eat?" And if they were asking themselves how it could be right now, they had a good sense not to voice that thought out loud. But the word delivers whatever it promises, and if He declares of the bread that it is His body, well then faith falls down before the Son of God and confirms - don't know how it can be, Lord, but you always speak the truth, and your word does not deceive, Your body it is!

Pr. Will Weedon