Eucharist

How passover started

1300 BCE

Passover comes from the passing over of jewish slaves to freedom. In the Book of Exodus, God asked the Israelites to sacrifice a lamb, and smear the blood on their doors. That night, the "angel of death" struck down the first born of the families of Egypt. The Hebrew families with the blood on their doors, were spared. They gathered with Moses to begin the journey to freedom across the red sea.

Passover

Period: 1300 BCE to 30

The bread and wine is taken at passover by Jewish people to celebrate the freeing of their ancestors. The bread and wine is taken because it symbolises the strength that it gave the Jewish slaves during their escape.

Passover and Eucharist

30

During the last supper Jesus was partaking in passover when he told his disciples that he would be sacrificed in the same way that the lamb was sacrificed and the sins of the human race would be forgiven. This gives a new meaning to the bread and wine.

First Eucharist

30

The bread and wine meaning changes after the last supper Becoming the body and blood of Christ, offered in sacrifice as food to strengthen the Christian in the journey of life. The story goes that jesus broke the bread and handed it to his disciple claiming it as his body and the wine as his blood

Jesus' death

30

Jesus' death solidifies the new meaning of Eucharist as comemaration for his death and the forgiveness of sins.

Paul's letter to the Corinthians

55

Paul's letter changes the meaning of Eucharist from just a meal to a ceremonial celebration of the life and death of christ. He brought meaning back to christ and away from an excuse to eat and get drunk.