While they were eating. This is at the conclusion of the Passover meal, while they are still seated. Jesus took the bread. Some of the Passover bread. Gave a prayer of thanks. EUCHARISTOS means both a "giving of thanks" and a "blessing." This is my body. The Jews said of the Passover Lamb: "This is the body of the lamb which our fathers ate in Egypt."

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Old Testament