While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. "Take it," he said, "this is my body."

Then he took a piece of bread, gave thanks to God, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them.

For I received from the Lord the teaching that I passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a piece of bread,

In the same way, after the supper he took the cup and said, "This cup is God's new covenant, sealed with my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

Then Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Day after day they met as a group in the Temple, and they had their meals together in their homes, eating with glad and humble hearts,

On Saturday evening we gathered together for the fellowship meal. Paul spoke to the people and kept on speaking until midnight, since he was going to leave the next day.

The cup we use in the Lord's Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.

Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

"I am the bread of life," Jesus told them. "Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.

I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."

Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.

For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink.

The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.

This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

So then, you should each examine yourself first, and then eat the bread and drink from the cup.

Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel."

The Sovereign LORD said, "Look at Jerusalem. I put her at the center of the world, with other countries all around her.

In the same way, he gave them the cup after the supper, saying, "This cup is God's new covenant sealed with my blood, which is poured out for you.

and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.

The cup we use in the Lord's Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.

These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.

Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.