Last Supper

The final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, commemorated in Christian worship as the institution of the Eucharist.

Eucharist: A Christian rite in which bread and wine commemorate Jesus’s Last Supper and, in many traditions, convey his presence. The rite makes the meal’s bread and cup recurring acts of Christian worship.
Synoptic Gospels: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which share substantial narrative and literary material. Their accounts provide three closely related narratives of the meal.
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper: A mural by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus announcing that one of his disciples will betray him. Its dramatic arrangement became one of the best-known visual interpretations of the Gospel scene.
Transubstantiation: The Catholic doctrine that bread and wine become Christ’s body and blood in substance during the Eucharist. It gives a specific account of how Christ is present in the meal’s elements.
Maundy Thursday: The Christian holy day commemorating Jesus’s final meal with his disciples and the events preceding his crucifixion. This observance recalls the meal within Holy Week.
Gospel of John: The fourth canonical Gospel, whose narrative and theology differ in significant ways from the Synoptic Gospels. John recounts a final meal but does not narrate the bread-and-cup institution in the same way.
Last Supper in Christian art: The visual tradition depicting Jesus’s final meal with his disciples across Christian art. Artists’ choices reveal which moments and theological meanings were emphasized.
Consubstantiation: A term often used for the view that Christ’s body and blood coexist with the bread and wine in Communion. It is commonly contrasted with transubstantiation, though many Lutheran theologians reject the label.
Passover: A Jewish festival commemorating the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. The Gospels place the meal in relation to Passover, though they differ on its timing.
Paul the Apostle: An early Christian missionary and letter writer whose writings are among the oldest surviving Christian texts. Paul preserves an early account of the meal’s words and their communal remembrance.

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