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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has someone already quoted Luke 22?

The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near. 2 The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, who was numbered among the Twelve. 4 He went away and discussed with the chief priests and temple police how he could hand Him over to them. 5 They were glad and agreed to give him silver.[a] 6 So he accepted the offer and started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him to them when the crowd was not present.[/quote]

That doesn’t make it a Passover Seder. Sorry.

That didn’t exist until rabbinical Judaism.[/quote]

Ok. I can’t argue with that because I frankly don’t know anything about the religious aspect of Judaism. I just know in this section of the Bible it speaks a lot about Passover meal and killing the Passover lamb. So maybe a Seder is kind of like a developed thing like the African tradition of kwanza?[/quote]

I don’t know what you mean by “developed thing.”

Jews have been celebrating Passover since the 5th century BCE, but the last supper wasn’t on Passover. A lamb was sacrificed at many Jewish feasts. Doesn’t mean it was a Passover Seder.

Moreover, the Passover Seder as we know it today was developed during rabbinical Judaism, so after the destruction of our second Temple in 70 CE, after which we stopped sacrificing animals.

So you having a Seder like we do isn’t akin to anything that Jesus would’ve done, even if the last supper had been on Passover. Judaism as it was practiced when the First and Second Temples were intact was nothing like it was afterwards.

In short: using matzah, charoset, the egg, or anything else present on the Seder plate to somehow relate things to Jesus is totally inaccurate.

Maybe have a Maudy Thursday service? Lots of ways to note the Last Supper.[/quote]

The last supper was absolutely on Passover. It’s literally all over the Christian scriptures. Those very same Christian scriptures describe that the lamb discussed was being slaughtered to celebrate the exodus from Egypt.

So you may be right it wasn’t a Seder and maybe it was the pre-Seder time as some people here are asserting (of which I have no idea if they are right) the Christian scripture state unequivocally that the dinner with the unleavened bread and wine etc was for Passover. And it may be an uncomfortable comparison that Christianity borrowed its bread and wine directly from the Jewish faith 2000 years ago. [/quote]

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