Note 100 — Chapter II · MACHINATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF JESUS; TREACHERY OF JUDAS; LAST SUPPER WITH HIS DISCIPLES.

It was at the last meal, according to the synoptists, with whom the Apostle Paul also agrees (1 Cor. xi. 23 ff.), that Jesus gave to the unleavened bread and the wine which, agreeably to the custom of the paschal feast,100 he, as head of the family, had to distribute among his disciples, a relation to his speedily approaching death. During the repast, we are told, he took bread, and after giving thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples with the declaration: This is my body, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ σῶμά μου, to which Paul and Luke add: which is given or broken for you, τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν διδόμενον or κλώμενον; in like manner, according to Paul and Luke after supper, he presented to them a cup of wine with the words: This is my blood of the new testament, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ αἷμά μου, τὸ τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης, or, according to Paul and Luke: the new testament in my blood, which is shed for many, or for you, καινὴ διαθήκη ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, τὸ περὶ πολλῶν or ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ἐκχυνόμενον, to which Matthew adds: for the remission of sins, εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, and Paul, what he and Luke previously give in reference to the bread: Do this, τοῦτο ποιεῖτε (Paul, with the wine, as oft as ye drink it, ὁσάκις ἂν πίνητε), in remembrance of me, εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν.