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MATTHEW 26:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 26:25Matt 26:27
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.”
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said: take, eat; this is my body. The institution of the eucharist during the Passover meal: Jesus takes bread, blesses, breaks, and gives — the same four eucharistic actions as the two feeding miracles (Matthew 14:19 and 15:36). The this is my body over the Passover bread transforms the Passover's unleavened bread into the sign of Jesus' broken body.

Church Fathers on Matthew 26:26

When the typical Passover was concluded, and He had partaken of the Lamb with His Apostles, He comes to the true paschal sacrament; that, as Melchisedech [marg. note: Gen 14:18], Priest of the most high God, had done in foreshadowing Christ, offering bread and wine, He also should offer the present verity of His Body and Blood.

Jerome · 4th century

'And as they were eating,' whereby it is clearly seen that at their first partaking of the Lord’s Body and Blood, the disciples did not partake fasting. But are we therefore to except against the practice of the whole Church, of receiving fasting? It has seemed good to the Holy Ghost, that for the better honour of so great a Sacrament, the Lord`s Body should enter the Christian’s mouth before other food. For to commend more mightily the depth of this mystery, the Saviour…

Augustine · 4th century · Ep. 54, 7

Christ delivered to us His Flesh and Blood under another kind, and ordained them to be thenceforth so received, that faith might have its merit, which is of things that are not seen.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · non occ.
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