Question on John 19:30

[Eleanor]

In the Old Testament, there were THREE levels of Priests:
High Priest [Aaron]
Levitical Priesthood [Ex 30:30; Lev 5:5-6; Numbers 15:27-28]

Both of the Levitical priesthood.

General priesthood of the rest of the believers. [Ex 19:6]

In the sense that they were to be totally consecrated to his service.
But only those of the tribe of Levi were priests.

In the New Testament, there are also three levels of Priests:
Jesus, our High Priest (1 Tim. 2:5, Heb. 7:22-25),
The Ministerial Priests (James 5:14-15; John 20:23; 2 Cor 2:10; 2 Cor 5:18)
The General Priesthood of all Christians (1 Peter 2:5-9).

All those in Christ are of the one and only priesthood, some being pastors and elders, with Christ as High Priest.

 

[Eleanor]

“IT” is the passover

Luke 22:15
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
In this passover Christ makes the old covenant passover into the new covenant Passover (the last supper is the offertory) the New Testament in His blood. Luke 22:20
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Christ is priest and victim:
1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Christ is high priest heb 8:1
The high priest wears the seamless garment Jn 19:23-24
The words the high priest says at the consummation of the passover sacrifice: “it is finished”!

And what is the Passover?

Salvation from (eternal) death by faith in the blood (Ro 3:25).

 

[mailmandan]

Amen--that was the point. Remembering Him until He comes. And of course the bread is not literally His body, nor the wine His blood, but representations.

Amen! Jesus is the Bread of Life. Just as bread nourishes our physical bodies, Jesus gives and sustains eternal life to all believers. John 6:35 - "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." As He was accustomed, Jesus used figurative language to emphasize these spiritual truths. Jesus explains the sense of the entire passage when He says in John 6:63 - "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."

The literal interpretation of literally eating flesh and literally drinking blood (transubstantiation) equates to cannibalism and is absurd. Eating and drinking is not literal (cannibalism) here but the reception of God’s grace by believing in Christ, as He makes clear by repeating the same truths in metaphoric and plain language below:

John 6:40 - Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:54 - Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:47 - Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
John 6:58 - He who eats this bread will live forever.

"He who believes" in Christ is equivalent to "he who eats this bread and drinks My blood" because the result is the same, eternal life.

Bread represents the "staff of life." Sustenance. That which essential to sustain life. Just as bread or sustenance is necessary to maintain physical life, Jesus is all the sustenance necessary for spiritual life. The source of physical life is blood -- "life is in the blood." As with the bread, just as blood is the empowering or source of life physically, Jesus is all the source of spiritual life necessary.

 

[Mr GLee]

CCC 1330 The memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection.

The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church's offering. The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, "sacrifice of praise," spiritual sacrifice, pure and holy sacrifice are also used,150 since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant.

I would offer.

Not a memory. The ongoing living work a labor of His love. Christ in us,

Yoked with him our daily burden is made lighter with a living hope beyond what the eyes see the temporal

Catholicism has no salvation. just an ongoing false hope of suffering even after one takes their last breath of Oxygen.

Limbo (venial) for the younger sinners and Purgatory (mortal) for the more mature sinner

Teaching that only a queen mother of heaven named after our blessed sister in the Lord, Mary.

Teaching she alone receive the fulness of grace the full price of salvation the rest of the world an unknow remnant of grace. Teaching she also visits the Protestants comforting them to continue their suffering . . .no end of faith. . . . salvation

There must be oral traditions seeing his kingdom does not come by observing the dying temporal to include false oral traditions like the "Queen Mother of heaven passed on from the Pharisees with Sadducees as long as they do not do despite to the fullness of grace .



2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

 

[Eleanor]

Amen! Jesus is the Bread of Life. Just as bread nourishes our physical bodies, Jesus gives and sustains eternal life to all believers. John 6:35 - "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." As He was accustomed, Jesus used figurative language to emphasize these spiritual truths. Jesus explains the sense of the entire passage when He says in John 6:63 - "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."

The literal interpretation of literally eating flesh and literally drinking blood (transubstantiation) equates to cannibalism and is absurd. Eating and drinking is not literal (cannibalism) here but the reception of God’s grace by believing in Christ, as He makes clear by repeating the same truths in metaphoric and plain language below:

John 6:40 - Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:54 - Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:47 - Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
John 6:58 - He who eats this bread will live forever.

"He who believes" in Christ is equivalent to "he who eats this bread and drinks My blood" because the result is the same, eternal life.

Bread represents the "staff of life." Sustenance. That which essential to sustain life. Just as bread or sustenance is necessary to maintain physical life, Jesus is all the sustenance necessary for spiritual life. The source of physical life is blood -- "life is in the blood." As with the bread, just as blood is the empowering or source of life physically, Jesus is all the source of spiritual life necessary.

The meaning is: as they participated in the benefits of the sacrifice by eating thereof in the OT, so we participate in the saving benefits of the NT sacrifice in the Lord's Supper.