Wheat and barley were
the Last Supper would most
used primarily to make bread.
certainly have been unleavened.
We know, from the miracle of
At other times, the bread he ate
the loaves and fishes, as well as
would often have depended
from accounts of the Last
upon who he was dining with.
Supper, that Jesus ate bread.
The poor ate bread made from
He used the word generically to
barley, the wealthy from wheat.
indicate ‘food’ in the Lord’s
Jesus dined with both rich and
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poor, so would have been
As a practicing Jew, he
familiar with both. The type of
would have kept the Passover
traditions. Since Jews do not eat
the pitta or Arab flatbread,
anything leavened during the
cooked in seconds on a domed
eight days of Passover, the
hotplate, still eaten today in the
bread he broke and shared at
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bread may have been similar to
Holy Land.
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