If the Last Supper..Passover/Seder meal that Jesus had with the Apostles?

Question

Do you think the families of the apostles, as well as Jesus's family and friends were at that dinner?

I was thinking that Jesus and the Apostles might have sat at the table like the Wedding Party does at a Wedding when we see that picture portrayed in paintings etc..

Is it feasible to think this Last Supper had many people in attendance?
Thoughts?
Hope you all had a Great Easter!

Answer 1

Most of the Talmadim, or apostles, didn't have families of their own, other than their parents. Peter was the only one we know to be married. In response to L'Chaim, though, I find your insistence that Y'shua having not married broke the law ignorant and petty. Are we ever presented with evidence that Eliyahu married? How about most of the old Testament prophets? The commandment to go forth and multiply was given to mankind as a whole, and not necessarily individual men. Y'shua never broke the law. In fact, the Seder is all about him. The Afikomen? It represents the Tri-Unity of Father, Son and Spirit. The Middle Matzah, taken out and broken represents his death. Rapped in a burial cloth and hidden away, then bought back, it symbolizes his resurrection. It's even striped bruised and pierced like he was! For every year of your life, being the good Jew you are, you celebrated him as Messiah in ignorance. This is just one tiny speck of all of the symbolism about him contained in the Seder. Pick up a B'rit Hadashah if you doubt what I'm saying, and test it for yourself.

Answer 2

Yes he was in Jerusalem The Upper Room was a place close to heaven. Far from the streets below, The meal was one of wine and bread This was the choice meal of the times. The population did not have the food storage ability we have to day. The example of what is to be shown had to be told also to the `12 apostles what it meant And remember these 12 have been with him since he ask them to join him. So for you to fully understand will take a personal involvement in the lesson before the meal. The same as the 12 had to be tout. Jesus was called teacher how many times in the new Testament He even had to teach them at this meal how to pray when he was ask by one how to. Our Father is its name. The last supper was as it is today for a person in prison and the day before, their last day on earth.

Answer 3

I can give a single truth. The Last supper took place in a Hebrew home in Jerusalem that belonged to neither Jesus or one of the Apostles. Being a Jewish home their would be a husband, a wife, and undoubtedly children. None of the household are in any of the art illustrating the Last supper. Being a Hebrew home one of the women of the house would be serving and attending.
There is very little to nothing of the household in the Bibles.

If you want the truth......Ask a Pagan.

Answer 4

There were probably many at the Last Supper. It was a feast of the Passover...which meant time with family.

Answer 5

I believe there were a great number there. Too bad we place our beliefs on what some middle ages European Painter made up. Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Rubens, Rembrant, none of them were there, witness by making Jesus red haired and European. John is always portrayed as blonde, and Mary looks like a European movie star.

Answer 6

It says in the Bible that he asked only his disicples to the last supper, it was not only a feast, but it is also where we got our communion ritual, "Take eat, this is my body" etc. They also discussed that Jesus would be betrayed by one of them. So I think that is was a supper, yes, but also a very somber occasion.

Answer 7

Feasible? Sure. Likely? Good question.

I'd put a reasonable probability on the inclusion of several of his prominent women supporters. You know, the ones with the money who were financing them.

It's a political text. How much was put into his mouth later we can't really know. But it would have been really going against norms if he didn't at least invite his mother.

Answer 8

If Jesus was a Jew, he would have had a family and children. The reason we celebrate passover is to obey the Biblical commandment to remember and to teach our children about our redemption from slavery in Egypt where we had been enslaved for 400 years. But then Jesus did not obey the commandments so he probably didn't marry and "multiply" so he had no children to teach. Therefore, he would have celebrated passover with his mother and father. I know he didn't obey the commandments, but I suspect he would have respected his mother enough to have celebrated the holiday with her.
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Answer 9

No, it was just Jesus and His Apostles.

Answer 10

id bet he chowed down with just the fellas