event · New Testament
At Passover, Jesus takes bread and cup: 'this is the new covenant in my blood'.
grows out of · the meal fulfilled
The Last Supper is a Passover meal. Jesus takes the bread and cup of a rescue from Egypt and gives them a new referent — his own body and blood — so the annual remembrance of one deliverance becomes the sign of a greater one.
grows out of · the same words
Moses says 'the blood of the covenant' as he throws blood over the people at Sinai. Jesus lifts the cup and uses the identical phrase, adding one word: new.
grows out of · the new covenant
Jesus does not invent the phrase. 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood' announces that Jeremiah's promise is now being enacted.
grows out of · bread and wine
The priest-king of Salem brings out bread and wine to bless Abram — the earliest appearance in Scripture of the two elements Jesus takes up on the last night.
points forward to · body given
The meal interprets the death before it happens: broken bread, poured wine, 'for you'.
grows out of · keep the feast
Paul's Passover line leads straight into instruction about the church's own meal, which he received and passed on.