Book of Common Prayer

Concerning The Lord’s Supper: Your Supper Is Unworthy of The Name

¹⁷ But while commanding this, I do not praise^[a]— because you are coming-together not for the better, but for the worse. ¹⁸ For first, while you are coming-together in church^[b], I am hearing that there are divisions among you. And a certain part of it I believe— ¹⁹ for there indeed have-to^[c] be factions among you in order that the approved ones may also^[d] become known among you. ²⁰ So while you are coming-together at the same place, it is not that you may eat the Lord’s Supper! ²¹ For at the eating^[e], each one is taking his own dinner before others. And one is hungry, and another is drunk. ²² You do not indeed fail to have houses for eating and drinking, do you? Or are you treating the church of God with contempt, and humiliating the ones not having? What should I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise.

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^[f] 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^[g] for you. Be doing this for My remembrance”. ²⁵ Similarly also the cup after the dining^[h], 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^[i] shall be guilty^[j] 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^[k] is eating and drinking judgment^[l] 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^[m] judged. ³² But while being judged, we are being disciplined^[n] 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^[o] judgment. And I will set-in-order the remaining things whenever I come.

Jesus Again Multiplies Loaves And Fish To Feed 4000

8 In those days, there again being a large crowd, and they not having anything they might eat— having summoned the disciples, He says to them ² “I feel-deep-feelings [of compassion] toward the crowd because it is already three days they are remaining-with Me, and they do not have anything they may eat. ³ And if I send them away to their house hungry, they will become-exhausted^[a] on the way. And some of them have come from a distance”. ⁴ And His disciples responded to Him that “From where will anyone be able to fill these ones to satisfaction with bread here in a desolate-place?” ⁵ And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And the ones said “Seven”. ⁶ And He orders the crowd to fall-back on the ground [to eat]. And having taken the seven loaves, having given-thanks, He broke them, and was giving them to His disciples in order that they might be setting them before them. And they set them before the crowd. ⁷ And they had a few small-fish. And having blessed them, He said to be setting these also before them. ⁸ And they ate and were filled-to-satisfaction. And they picked up the leftovers of fragments— seven large-baskets. ⁹ And there were about four-thousand men. And He sent them away.

The Pharisees Ask For a Sign. No Sign Will Be Given To This Generation

¹⁰ And immediately, having gotten into the boat with His disciples, He went to the regions of Dalmanutha.