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1 Corinthians 11:24

1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 Corinthians 11:24 The expression This is my body has been interpreted in various ways throughout church history. Roman Catholics believe the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ. Lutherans hold that the literal body and blood of Christ are present “in, with, and under” the bread and wine. Some Anglicans refer to the “real presence” of Christ in the bread and wine. Most other Protestants believe that Christ is present symbolically and spiritually, strengthening believers’ faith and fellowship in him and thereby feeding their souls (see Matthew 18:20; Matthew 28:20).

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    1 CORINTHIANS 11:24 Tou/to {A} The Textus Receptus, following C3 K L P most minuscules syrp, h goth ethpp, adds from Matthew 26:26 the words la,bete...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 24. _THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME._] The papists believe the apostles were not ordained priests before these words. Si quis dixerit, illis verbis, hoc facite in meam commemorationem, Christum n...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS - See the note on Matthew 26:26. Matthew reads it, “and blessed it.” The words used here are, however, substantially the same as there; and this fact shows that since this...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTER S 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord's Supper. CHAPTER 11. _ 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 Corinthians 11:7. THE DESECRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. Paul feels that in one respect he must restrict his praise. Their meetings damage rather than profit them. He cannot help believing part of wh...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    For I received of the Lord that which I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night on which he was being delivered up, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1) 11:1 All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not buil...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GIVEN THANKS. Greek. _eucharisteo._ See Acts 27:35. TAKE, EAT. The texts omit. IS. See Matthew 26:26. BROKEN. The texts omit. FOR. on behalf of. App-104. IN. for. App-104. REMEMBRANCE OF ME. My m...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and when he had given thanks_ St Mark has -blessed," St Matthew, according to some copies, -blessed," to others, -gave thanks." St Luke agrees with St Paul. From the Greek word used here this sacrame...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Disorders at the Lord's Supper 17. _Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not_ St Paul was able to praise the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:2) for their attention to the injunctions he had...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    DISORDERS AT THE LORD’S SUPPER...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    24. [λάβετε φάγετε] after ΕἾΠΕΝ. The student of the Gospels is familiar with the constant efforts on the part of the copyists to assimilate the language of the various narratives. It need surprise no...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD'S SUPPER OBSERVED CORRECTLY 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26:_ These brethren had so corrupted the communion that Paul reviewed the institution and purpose of the Supper. Jesus took bread and said, "T...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΕΫ́ΧΑΡΙΣΤΈΩ (G2168) воздавать хвалу. _Temp. part._, "после того, как он воздал хвалу" ΈΚΛΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΛΆΩ (G2806) ломать, ΜΟΎ (G1473) мой. Сильно подч...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1978 THE DESIGN AND IMPORTANCE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:24; 1 Corinthians 11:26. _This do in remembrance of me ….. for as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, &C.— This is a remarkable instance, among a thousand, to prove the authenticity of St. Luke's Gospel. The Apostle, finding it necessary to reprove the Corinthians for the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Oneness, a Requirement for Godly Worship (1 Corinthians 11:17-34) 17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. BRAKE. The breaking of the bread involves its distribution,...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:24 me. (i-22) 'For the calling of me to mind.' The word translated 'remembrance' has an active signification of 'recalling' or 'calling to mind,' as a memorial. Cf. Hebrews 10:3 , 'a calling to min...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TAKE, EAT] RV omits. In the MSS which have this reading the copyists probably supplied it from St. Matthew's Gospel, for the sake of securing uniformity in the accounts of the institution. IS BROKEN...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'I wrote of praising you for keeping my ordinances, but I cannot praise you with regard to your Church meetings, which, as now conducted, do you more harm than good. (18) First I hear of t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DISORDERS IN WORSHIP _2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church_ 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. PROBLEMS ABOUT *WORSHIP 11:2-34 1. MEN AND WOMEN IN *WORSHIP 11:2-16 V2 I praise you because...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS... — Better, _and having given thanks, He brake it, and said,_ “_This is My body which is for you.”_ The insertion of the words, “take, eat,” and “broken” is not supported...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 17 ABUSE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER IN this paragraph of his letter Paul speaks of an abuse which can scarcely be credited, still less tolerated, in our times. The most sacred of all Christian ordi...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 38. UNWORTHY PARTICIPANTS OF THE LORD'S BREAD AND CUP. The behaviour of the wealthier Cor [1740] at the Church Supper is scandalous in itself; viewed in the light of the institution and meaning of t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Amongst the things the Ap. had “delivered” to his readers, that they professed to be “holding fast” (1 Corinthians 11:2), was the story of the Last Supper of the Lord Jesus, which the Church perpetuat...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    OBSERVING THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:23 There was much disorder in the Corinthian church, because the love-feast, which preceded the Holy Supper, was the scene of riot and conviviality, of os...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Lord's Instructions Concerning the Supper The Lord himself told Paul about the sacred supper. The night of the supper's institution was the night in which Christ was betrayed and thus was a solemn...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is (i) broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. (i) This word "broken" denotes to us the manner of Christ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Juvenius, a native of Spain, and a priest, who flourished under Constantine the Great, about the year 329, has left us the life of Christ in hexameter verse, where speaking of the institution of the e...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    VIII. DISORDERS IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. 11:17-34. The disorder which Paul has just described and combated was a small matter in comparison with that to which he now passes. The style...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the night in which He was betrayed, took bread: 24. and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, Thi...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    The thanksgiving of the father of the family at the Paschal feast, referred to the blessings of creation and to those of the deliverance from Egypt. That of Jesus no doubt referred to the blessings of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (17) Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. (18) For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    24._Having given thanks. _Paul observes elsewhere, that every gift that we receive from the hand of God is sanctified to us by the word and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:5.) Accordingly, we nowhere read that...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Observe here the way in which the apostle grounded his replies with regard to details on the highest and fundamental principles. This is the manner of Christianity (compare Titus 2:10-14). He introduc...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS,.... So Luke 22:19, but Matthew 26:26 and Mark 14:22 say "he blessed"; not the bread, but his Father; for to bless and give thanks is one and the same thing with the Jews;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when he had given thanks, he brake _it_, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. Ver. 24. _This is my body_] _En praeclaram illam consecration...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And when he had given thanks_ The word ευχαριστησας, thus rendered, is the term used also by Luke, whence Macknight infers, that the word ευλογησας, used by Matthew and Mark, ought to be understood,...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THIS IS MY BODY; a representation of it. Chap 1 Corinthians 10:4....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE BRAKE IT AND SAID, TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH IS BROKEN FOR YOU; THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's revelation of the institution of the Eucharist:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is i...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IN REMEMBRANCE: Or, for a remembrance...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE BRAKE IT, AND SAID, THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH IS FOR YOU: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. 'he brake it' -the only bread available to Jesus during the Passover, would of b...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-34 The apostle describes the sacred ordinance, of which he had the knowledge by revelation from Christ. As to the visible signs, these are the bread and wine. What is eaten is called bread, though...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ver. 24,25. These words we also met with, LUKE 22:19,20, and in the other evangelists narration of the institution of the supper. SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 22:19". SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 22:20"....

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me. [The Greek word for giving thanks is eucharistia, and from it many call the Lord's...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 11:24 and G2532 thanks G2168 (G5660) broke G2806 (G5656) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) T

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    'For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my b...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CRITICISMS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE LORD'S SUPPER IN CHURCH WORSHIP (11:17-33). But Paul's dissatisfaction goes beyond just the covering of the hair and lack of restraint while praying and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    APPROACH TO WORSHIP (11:2-14:40). We now move on to a section which deals with the Christian approach to worship in the light of the particular problems of the Corinthian church. Chapter 11 covers the...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The immediate object of this section is to denounce certain gross disorders in the celebration of this ordinance which had crept into the Corinthian church; but this gives occasion to so comprehensive...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS (ευχαριστησας). First aorist active participle of ευχαριστεω from which word our word Eucharist comes, common late verb (see on 1 Corinthians 1:14).WHICH IS FOR YOU (το υπ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The members of the church at Corinth abounded in gifts, and therefore they thought it meet for each one to speak to edification. They had no pastoral oversight whatever; acting, in this respect, like...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they whic...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper._ Merely meeting together, each person bringing his or her own portion of bread and wine, an...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Christian order and the Lord's supper. Meaning of the Lord's table. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Lord's supper is a memorial of His finished atonement, a parable of His pr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Corinthians 11:2. _Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you._ The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:6

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    GAVE THANKS TO GOD. EUCHARISTESAS = gave thanks. _Eucharist_ is a good Bible word. It appears some fifty-five times in its various forms in the Greek Testament. Applied to the Lord's Supper, it paints...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For I have received of the Lord Jesus that which also I delivered unto you._ GIVING AS WE RECEIVE At a sailors’ meeting a seaman prayed, “Lord, make us ships with two hatchways; one to take in cargo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And when He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, Take, eat._ THE LORD’S SUPPER 1. It is remarkable that we are indebted to Paul for the most particular account of this service, because he was no...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthians had asked of S. Paul whether or no women ought t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ NEW TOPIC: THE LORD’S SUPPER AND THE LOVE-FEASTS 1 Corinthians 11:17.—_Backward_ reference: _the directions just given_, and the general praise of 1 Corinthians 11:2, are not to be t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1 FOLLOWERS OF ME; rather, _imitators of me; _follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself," he sets for...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians 11. Paul here in the first verse said, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In the previous verse he spoke about h...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 10:3; 1 Corinthians 10:4;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Had given thanks [ε υ χ α ρ ι σ τ η ς]. Eucharistesas. Hence in post - apostolic and patristic writers, Eucharist was the technical term for the Lord's Supper as a sacrifice of thanksgiving for all th...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Circumstances under which the Supper was inaugurated. 1. Christ knew He would die. 2. After the Passover passed away the Supper came in....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This is my body, which is broken for you — That is, this broken bread is the sign of my body, which is even now to be pierced and wounded for your iniquities. Take then, and eat of, this bread, in an...

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