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Mark 14:22

While they were eating, Jesus took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke off some pieces, gave them to his followers and said, "Take and eat this bread. It is my body."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Craftiness;   Eucharist (the Lord's Supp;   Jesus, the Christ;   Passover;   Prayer;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Communion;   Feasts;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Lord's;   Sacrament of the Lord's Supper;   Spiritual;   Supper, the Lord's;   The Topic Concordance - Atonement;   Blood;   Body;   Sacrifice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Passover;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Atonement;   Body;   Church, the;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Forgiveness;   Hospitality;   Suffering;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Holy;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Ordinances;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eucharist;   John, Gospel of;   Judas Iscariot;   Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Benediction;   Blessing (2);   Body;   Body (2);   Communion (2);   Cup ;   Discourse;   Fellowship (2);   Ideas (Leading);   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Meals;   Organization (2);   Passion Week;   Redemption (2);   Sacrifice (2);   Thanksgiving ;   Upper Room (2);   Worship;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chamber;   Judas;   Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lord (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Mediation;   Salvation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Haggadah (Shel Pesaḥ);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As they were eating, he took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.”
King James Version (1611)
And as they did eate, Iesus tooke bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue to them, and said, Take, eate: this is my body.
King James Version
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
English Standard Version
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
New American Standard Bible
While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body."
New Century Version
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread and thanked God for it and broke it. Then he gave it to his followers and said, "Take it; this is my body."
Amplified Bible
While they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it [giving thanks and praise], and He broke it, and gave it to them and said, "Take it. This is My body."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body."
Legacy Standard Bible
And while they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body."
Berean Standard Bible
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take it; this is My body."
Contemporary English Version
During the meal Jesus took some bread in his hands. He blessed the bread and broke it. Then he gave it to his disciples and said, "Take this. It is my body."
Complete Jewish Bible
While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to them and said, "Take it! This is my body."
Darby Translation
And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said, Take [this]: this is my body.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them, and sayde, Take, eate, this is my bodie.
George Lamsa Translation
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and he broke it, and gave it to them, and he said to them, Take it; this is my body.
Good News Translation
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."
Lexham English Bible
And while they were eating, he took bread and, after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them and said, "Take it, this is my body."
Literal Translation
And as they were eating, Jesus taking a loaf, blessing, He broke and gave to them. And He said, Take, eat, this is My body.
American Standard Version
And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is my body.
Bible in Basic English
And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.
Hebrew Names Version
As they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."
International Standard Version
While they were eating, Jesushe
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Etheridge Translation
And while they were eating, Jeshu took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them, and said to them, Take; this is my body.
Murdock Translation
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them, and said to them: Take; this is my body.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as they dyd eate, Iesus toke bread: and whe he had blessed, he brake [it] and gaue to them, and sayde: Take, eate, this is my body.
English Revised Version
And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is my body.
World English Bible
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And as they ate, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
Weymouth's New Testament
Also during the meal He took a Passover biscuit, blessed it, and broke it. He then gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it is my body."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And while thei eeten, Jhesus took breed, and blessid, and brak, and yaf to hem, and seide, Take ye; this is my bodi.
Update Bible Version
And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, Take: this is my body.
Webster's Bible Translation
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke [it], and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
New English Translation
While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it. This is my body."
New King James Version
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, "Take, eat; [fn] this is My body."
New Living Translation
As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take it, for this is my body."
New Life Bible
As they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread. He gave thanks and broke it in pieces. He gave it to them and said, "Take, eat, this is My body."
New Revised Standard
While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as they were eating, taking a loaf, he blessed and brake, and gave unto them, and said - Take! this, is, my body;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body.
Revised Standard Version
And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And as they ate Iesus toke breede blessed and brake and gave to them and sayde: Take eate this ys my body.
Young's Literal Translation
And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And as they ate, Iesus toke the bred, gaue thankes, & brake it, and gaue it the, & sayde: Take, eate, this is my body.
Mace New Testament (1729)
When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body.
THE MESSAGE
In the course of their meal, having taken and blessed the bread, he broke it and gave it to them. Then he said, Take, this is my body.
Simplified Cowboy Version
While they were eating, he took some bread, gave thanks to God for it, and shared pieces of it with all his cowboys. After handing some to everyone, he said, "This bread is for y'all and it represents my body that I also give for y'all."

Contextual Overview

12 It was now the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread—the day the lambs were killed for the Passover. Jesus' followers came to him and said, "We will go and prepare everything for you to eat the Passover meal. Where do you want us to have the meal?" 13 Jesus sent two of his followers into the city. He said to them, "Go into the city. You will see a man carrying a jar of water. He will come to you. Follow him. 14 He will go into a house. Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks that you show us the room where he and his followers can eat the Passover meal.' 15 The owner will show you a large room upstairs that is ready for us. Prepare the meal for us there." 16 So the followers left and went into the city. Everything happened the way Jesus said. So the followers prepared the Passover meal. 17 In the evening Jesus went to that house with the twelve apostles. 18 While they were all at the table eating, he said, "Believe me when I say that one of you will hand me over to my enemies—one of you eating with me now." 19 The followers were very sad to hear this. Each one said to Jesus, "Surely I am not the one!" 20 Jesus answered, "It is one of you twelve—the one who is dipping his bread in the same bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will suffer what the Scriptures say will happen to him. But it will be very bad for the one who hands over the Son of Man to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as: Matthew 26:26-29, Luke 22:19, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 10:17, 1 Corinthians 11:23-29

and blessed: Mark 6:41, Luke 24:30, John 6:23

take: John 6:48-58

this: That is, this represents my body; the substantive verb, whether expressed or understood, being often equivalent to signifies or represents. - Exodus 12:11, Daniel 7:24, Matthew 13:38, Matthew 13:39, Luke 8:9, Luke 15:26, Luke 18:36, John 7:36, John 10:6, Acts 10:17, Revelation 1:20, Revelation 5:6, Revelation 5:8, Revelation 11:4, Revelation 17:12, Revelation 17:18, Revelation 19:8. Mark 14:24, Genesis 41:26, Zechariah 5:7, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Galatians 4:25

Reciprocal: Exodus 39:7 - a memorial Matthew 14:19 - he blessed Mark 14:23 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 14:5
So in the 14th year, King Kedorlaomer and the kings with him came to fight against them. Kedorlaomer and the kings with him defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim. They also defeated the Zuzites in Ham. They defeated the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
Genesis 14:6
And they defeated the Horites who lived in the area from the hill country of Seir to El Paran. (El Paran is near the desert.)
Genesis 14:19
He blessed Abram and said, "Abram, may you be blessed by God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Genesis 14:20
And we praise God Most High, who helped you defeat your enemies." Abram gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything he had taken during the battle.
Genesis 14:23
I promise that I will not keep anything that is yours—not even a thread or a sandal strap! I don't want you to say, ‘I made Abram rich.'
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a special tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.
Exodus 6:8
I made a great promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I promised to give them a special land. So I will lead you to that land. I will give you that land. It will be yours. I am the Lord .'"
Deuteronomy 32:40
I raise my hand toward heaven and make this promise. As surely as I live forever, these things will happen!
Judges 11:35
When Jephthah saw that his daughter was the first thing to come out of his house, he tore his clothes to show his sadness. Then he said, "Oh, my daughter! You have ruined me! You have made me very sad! I made a promise to the Lord , and I cannot change it!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as they did eat,.... The paschal lamb, and the unleavened bread, just at the conclusion of that feast:

Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; beginning and instituting a new feast, to be kept in aftertimes, in commemoration of his sufferings and death, now near at hand;

and gave to them, the disciples,

and said, take, eat: the word eat is not in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and is wanting in some copies:

this is body; a figure and representation of it;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 26:20-35.

Mark 14:31

More vehemently - More earnestly, more confidently.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. Eat — This is omitted by many MSS. and versions, but I think without reason. It is found in the parallel places, Matthew 26:26; 1 Corinthians 11:24. See the subject of the Lord's Supper largely explained on Matthew 26:26, &c.


 
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