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Passover and the Lord’s Supper

There is an integral correspondence between the Christian Lord's Supper and the Israelite Passover. Like the Passover, the Lord's Supper is a joyful reaffirmation of the covenant. And like Passover, it recalls the Lord's great act in the deliverance of a people. But the Lord's Supper also points ahead to the ultimate destiny of Christians: freedom in the presence of God.

The Last Supper

The tradition that Paul received and put down in writing belongs to the earliest accounts of what took...

 

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