Preliminary questions and observations related to the institution of the communion of the Lord’s Supper:
1A. QUESTIONS
1B. Why Was His Mother, Mary, Not Invited?
2B. Why Were His Siblings Not Invited?
3B. Why Were His Hosts, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, Not Invited?
4B. Why Were The Seventy Not Invited?
5B. Why Were The 120 Not Invited?
2A. OBSERVATIONS
1B. When the upper room was reserved, He was exercising His sovereign rite of requisition, just as He had with the donkey colt, Matthew 21.2, 5, 7; Mark 14.12-16; Luke 22.10-13; John 12.14-15.
2B. When He instituted the communion of the Lord’s Supper He refrained from the fruit of the vine that He commended to the gathered celebrants, Matthew 26.29; Mark 14.26; Luke 22.18
CONCLUSIONS:
1. The communion of the Lord’s Supper is not a saving ordinance, elst those not invited would have been invited to partake of it.
2. The communion of the Lord’s Supper is not an open communion, elst those not invited would have been invited to partake of it.
