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Mark 14:22

What does Mark 14:22 mean?

A plain-English look at Mark 14:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Mark 14:22 means

While they are eating, Jesus takes bread, blesses, breaks, and gives it to them, saying, “Take: this is my body.” He reinterprets Passover bread to point to Himself. The breaking signals His soon-to-be-broken body given for His disciples. He invites them to receive, not to achieve. The simplicity of bread conveys nearness and sufficiency. By identifying the bread with His body, Jesus unites sign and reality: He is the true sustenance for His people. This act institutes the Lord’s Supper, in which believers remember and proclaim His death until He comes, feeding on Him by faith.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is my body.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is my body.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said, Take [this]: this is my body.

Context

Having spoken of betrayal and divine purpose, Jesus now gives the meal its new covenant meaning. Bread is taken, blessed, broken, and given with a startling identification. This initiates the pattern that will be completed with the cup in the next verses. The institution comes amid darkness, assuring the disciples that His death is for them. After the cup, Jesus will speak of not drinking again until the kingdom and then lead them in a hymn to the Mount of Olives, where predictions of scattering and denial await.

v.21For the Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

v.22This passage

v.23And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them: and they all drank of it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Zechariah 5:7

    (and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

  • Matthew 26:26

    And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

  • Mark 6:41

    And he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves; and he gave to the disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

  • Luke 22:18

    for I say unto you, I shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

  • Galatians 4:25

    Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.

  • 1 Corinthians 11:23

    For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

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