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• Luke 22:19 . . He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them,
saying: This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.
• 1Cor 11:23-24 . . I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord
Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he
broke it and said: This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.
The bread that Jesus served his men isn't specifically identified as either leavened
or unleavened. It's translated from the Greek word artos; which basically speaks of
ordinary bread; but not always because artos is somewhat ambiguous.
For example Jesus called the sacred bread artos (Matt 12:3-4). Well, for sure that
particular bread is not ordinary bread. According to Lev 24:5 it's only ingredient is
virgin flour, i.e. the sacred bread was unleavened.
* This is important because the sacred bread wasn't food offered to God, rather
food blessed of God and offered to the priests. Well; we can't imagine God offering
His priests bread made from fermented dough, rather, bread made from the best
and the freshest ingredients. (cf. John 6:26-58)
So we can safely assume that bread described as artos is nondescript; and a pretty
weak argument that Jesus and his men ate the wrong kind of bread with their
Seder.
FAQ: What constitutes unleavened bread?
A: The essential consideration when undertaking unleavened bread is age.
Given time, fresh dough will spoil on its own without the addition of yeasts and/or
starters because all flour, no matter how carefully it's milled and packaged,
contains a percentage of naturally-occurring fungi.
Back in the day, there were no sanitary, indoor facilities with which to grind flour;
in point of fact, they used stones exposed to the open air so their product was no
doubt contaminated with far more fungi than in our day; which means that back in
Moses' day-- and in Jesus' day too --there was no such thing as flour containing
zero yeasts. It all contained yeasts, more or less, and without refrigeration and
there was no practical way to stop fresh dough from fermenting.
Passover is supposed to be eaten with bread made from fresh dough rather than
dough that's been allowed time to ferment. Sourdough bread is safe for human
consumption, but it doesn't convey a sense of urgency. Fresh dough for dinner
bread is the dough of choice when people are in a hurry to get fed and get going.
• Ex 12:11 . . This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt,
your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste
• Ex 12:38-39 . . And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks
and herds, a very large number of livestock. And they baked the dough which they
had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become
leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they
prepared any provisions for themselves.
(cf. Gen 18:6 & Gen 19:3)
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saying: This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.
• 1Cor 11:23-24 . . I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord
Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he
broke it and said: This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.
The bread that Jesus served his men isn't specifically identified as either leavened
or unleavened. It's translated from the Greek word artos; which basically speaks of
ordinary bread; but not always because artos is somewhat ambiguous.
For example Jesus called the sacred bread artos (Matt 12:3-4). Well, for sure that
particular bread is not ordinary bread. According to Lev 24:5 it's only ingredient is
virgin flour, i.e. the sacred bread was unleavened.
* This is important because the sacred bread wasn't food offered to God, rather
food blessed of God and offered to the priests. Well; we can't imagine God offering
His priests bread made from fermented dough, rather, bread made from the best
and the freshest ingredients. (cf. John 6:26-58)
So we can safely assume that bread described as artos is nondescript; and a pretty
weak argument that Jesus and his men ate the wrong kind of bread with their
Seder.
FAQ: What constitutes unleavened bread?
A: The essential consideration when undertaking unleavened bread is age.
Given time, fresh dough will spoil on its own without the addition of yeasts and/or
starters because all flour, no matter how carefully it's milled and packaged,
contains a percentage of naturally-occurring fungi.
Back in the day, there were no sanitary, indoor facilities with which to grind flour;
in point of fact, they used stones exposed to the open air so their product was no
doubt contaminated with far more fungi than in our day; which means that back in
Moses' day-- and in Jesus' day too --there was no such thing as flour containing
zero yeasts. It all contained yeasts, more or less, and without refrigeration and
there was no practical way to stop fresh dough from fermenting.
Passover is supposed to be eaten with bread made from fresh dough rather than
dough that's been allowed time to ferment. Sourdough bread is safe for human
consumption, but it doesn't convey a sense of urgency. Fresh dough for dinner
bread is the dough of choice when people are in a hurry to get fed and get going.
• Ex 12:11 . . This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt,
your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste
• Ex 12:38-39 . . And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks
and herds, a very large number of livestock. And they baked the dough which they
had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become
leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they
prepared any provisions for themselves.
(cf. Gen 18:6 & Gen 19:3)
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