The Meal Jesus Gave Us Quotes

“And in the middle of it all a meal that should have been a Passover but hadn’t been, with words that should have pointed to God’s great new redemption but obviously didn’t, said by the one who should have been Israel’s Messiah but who now obviously wasn’t.”
― N.T. Wright, The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Revised Edition

“Imagine life without parties. Imagine life without the thousand things we do, large and small, that give shape to who we are, that give extra meaning and value to people, to occasions, to the way we do things. I guess you can just about imagine living without any little outward signs as to what you were thinking – no hugs and kisses at the start and end of the day, no wave of the hand, no handshakes, no raising of a glass to toast a bride, or a colleague, or an exam passed. I suppose we might, if we tried very hard, be able to organize our lives without special meals on special occasions, without special trips to special places, without all those things that bring colour and depth to our world. We might just manage it. But life would be very dull.”
― N.T. Wright, The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Revised Edition

“Luther’s strong point was what Jesus said at the Last Supper: ‘This is my body’. He wrote the Latin in beer-froth on the table: Hoc est corpus meus.”
― N.T. Wright, The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Revised Edition