19 For athere must also be factions among you, bthat those who are approved may be1 recognized among you.
20 Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and aanother is drunk.
22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise athe church of God and bshame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
Institution of the Lord’s Supper
23 For aI received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: bthat the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said,1“Take, eat; this is My body which is2broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
Every one taketh before - his own supper - They had a grand feast, though the different sects kept in parties by themselves; but all took as ample a supper as they could provide, (each bringing his own provisions with him), before they took what was called the Lord' s Supper. See on I Corinthians 11:17 (note).
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