📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 11:24
What does 1 Corinthians 11:24 mean?
"When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”"
— 1 Corinthians 11:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly, and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
Explanation
This verse records Jesus' words at the Last Supper, as Paul relates them to the church in Corinth. In plain terms, Jesus takes bread, gives thanks to God for it, breaks it into pieces, and hands it to his disciples, telling them to eat it. He identifies the bread with his own body, saying
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