In Communion, Christians think of the body and the blood of Jesus. But what do these things mean? What are we to think of the body and the blood of Jesus? Do the bread and the juice (or wine) in Communion actually become the literal body and blood of Jesus the Messiah?

Does Communion relate to the Jewish Passover? How did Messiah create a new covenant with His blood? Was this prophesied in the old covenant? Did Jesus take the bread and the fruit of the vine (juice, or wine) of Passover – and connect it with new symbolism of the New Covenant?

In the Jewish Passover Seder, the master of the house would give the symbolic meanings of all of the food. But, now that Jesus Messiah, the real Master of the House is here – leading this last Passover meal – He changes the normal interpretation of Passover – and reinterprets some of the items, pointing people to Himself!

Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

See also: Ezekiel 11:19-20; 36:25-27; John 14:16-20; 19:33-35; Hebrews 9:18-22