Book of Common Prayer

The Lord’s Supper Is a Remembrance of What He Did For Us

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also handed-over^[a] to you— that the Lord Jesus, in the night on which He was being handed-over, took bread. ²⁴ And having given-thanks, He broke it and said “This is My body, the one being given^[b] for you. Be doing this for My remembrance”. ²⁵ Similarly also the cup after the dining^[c], saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Be doing this, as-often-as you drink it, for My remembrance”. ²⁶ For as-often-as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you are proclaiming the death of the Lord, until which time He comes.

So Don’t Partake of It In a Manner Unworthy of What He Did: Examine Yourselves

²⁷ So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily^[d] shall be guilty^[e] of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a person examine himself, and in this manner let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For the one eating and drinking while not rightly-judging the body^[f] is eating and drinking judgment^[g] on himself. ³⁰ For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and many sleep. ³¹ But if we were rightly-judging ourselves, we would not be being^[h] judged. ³² But while being judged, we are being disciplined^[i] by the Lord in-order-that we might not be condemned with the world.

Partake of It Together With Proper Respect For One Another

³³ So then, my brothers, while coming-together so as to eat, be waiting-for one another. ³⁴ If one is hungry, let him eat at home, in-order-that you might not come-together for^[j] judgment. And I will set-in-order the remaining things whenever I come.

Jesus Calls Matthew The Tax Collector And Eats With His Friends. I Came For Sinners

⁹ And while Jesus was passing on from there, He saw a man sitting at the tax-office, being called Matthew. And He says to him, “Be following Me!” And having stood up, he followed Him. ¹⁰ And it came about while He was reclining-back [to eat] in the^[a] house that behold— many tax-collectors and sinners^[b], having come, were reclining-back-with Jesus and His disciples. ¹¹ And having seen it, the Pharisees were saying to His disciples, “For what reason is your Teacher eating with the tax-collectors and sinners?” ¹² And the One, having heard it, said, “The ones being strong have no need of a physician, but the ones being ill. ¹³ But having gone, learn what it means [in Hos 6:6]: ‘I desire mercy, and not a sacrifice’. For I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinners”.

Jesus Did Not Come To Patch Up The Old System, But To Inaugurate a New One

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John come to Him, saying “For what reason are we and the Pharisees fasting^[c] often, but Your disciples are not fasting?” ¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, “The sons of the wedding-hall^[d] cannot be mourning as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ And no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the fullness of it takes^[e] from the garment and a worse tear takes place. ¹⁷ Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise indeed the wineskins are burst, and the wine spills out and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into fresh^[f] wineskins, and both are preserved”.