While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.”
In these verses we have, I. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, the night before he died, with the joys and comforts of which ordinance he prepared himself for his approaching sorrows, the full prospect of which did not indispose him for that solemnity.
Commenting on Mark 14:12-31
And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks,.... Over it, and for it, by blessing it, and appropriating it to the present use and service: he gave it to them; his disciples, and they all drank of it; Judas, as well as the rest, as he bid them do; See Gill on Mat 26:27.
Verse 22. (l) "as they did eat" (m) "Take, eat"