07-15-2014, 04:09 AM
Yea, bar Sinko, the more I look into this matter, it looks like they would finish off the remaining leaven with that last supper meal, before the day of Passover, when they were to eat the paschal lamb and bitter herbs...
Also, if I'm not mistaken, the beginning of the 7 day festival is the 1st day of unleavened bread, which began the day after the actual Passover meal was eaten. So I think they could eat it up to that point, or the last meal the night before, which would have been this supper they had before Messiah was crucified the next afternoon.
If we look close at all the statements in the Gospels, the meal they had that night seems not to have been the regular Passover meal, as it looks to have taken place at the start of the 14th of Nissan, where the actual Passover meal was eaten about 24 hours later at the end/eve of the 14th of Nissan. Messiah calls it the Passover meal, but I don't think they were celebrating it as the other would be doing the next evening.
If this is so, then it may well have been leavened bread they used to sop with that night, which makes more sense, and explains why the original Eucharist was universally unleavened bread, until the Latin branch began to use unleavened bread for some reason.
Also, the fact that it indicates they were reclined for that supper says something, as the Passover meal I think was to be eaten while standing upright and in haste...it was not a leisurely meal at all.
Pretty interesting.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, the beginning of the 7 day festival is the 1st day of unleavened bread, which began the day after the actual Passover meal was eaten. So I think they could eat it up to that point, or the last meal the night before, which would have been this supper they had before Messiah was crucified the next afternoon.
If we look close at all the statements in the Gospels, the meal they had that night seems not to have been the regular Passover meal, as it looks to have taken place at the start of the 14th of Nissan, where the actual Passover meal was eaten about 24 hours later at the end/eve of the 14th of Nissan. Messiah calls it the Passover meal, but I don't think they were celebrating it as the other would be doing the next evening.
If this is so, then it may well have been leavened bread they used to sop with that night, which makes more sense, and explains why the original Eucharist was universally unleavened bread, until the Latin branch began to use unleavened bread for some reason.
Also, the fact that it indicates they were reclined for that supper says something, as the Passover meal I think was to be eaten while standing upright and in haste...it was not a leisurely meal at all.
Pretty interesting.