BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright M. Wright. The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Last Supper. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper. New York: Doubleday, 2011.

REFERENCES

John 6:14-15 - When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Exodus 16:1-3 - "On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt [...] the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said to them, 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'"

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1:9 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90) - "As the first redeemer caused manna to descend, as it is stated, 'Because I shall cause to rain bread from heave for you' (Exodus 16:4), so will the latter redeemer cause manna to descend."

Mekilta on Exodus 16:25 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90) - "You will not find it [the manna] in this age, but you shall find it in the Age to Come."

2 Baruch 29:3, 6-8 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90-91) - "It will happen that when all that which should come to pass in these parts is accomplished, the Messiah will begin to be revealed... And those who are hungry will enjoy themselves and they will, moreover, see marvels every day... And it will happen at that time that the treasury of manna will come down again from on high and they will eat of it in those years because these are they who will have arrived at the consummation of time."

Leviticus 17:10-11 - "'If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood'"

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 115 - "I suggest that the very reason God forbids blood in the Old Covenant is the same reason Jesus commands his disciples to drink his blood."

Genesis 3:22-23 - "Then the LORD God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever'— therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken."