Take and eat, this is My body.--Jesus
Why did Jesus give us His body to eat? Because He is the Lamb of God. Moses made it clear that the children of Israel were to eat the lamb after they had covered the doorpost with the blood of the lamb. The passover would only happen to those households who ate the lamb. John the Baptist announced Jesus to his own disciples as, "The Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world." The first Passover was only a type for the one true Passover to come through the One True Lamb of God. When Jesus told the disciples and apostles in John chapter six that they must eat His Body and drink His Blood, He was preparing us all for the Eucharist. He told them plainly in this chapter, "for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink." He is our passover.
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