Body of Christ

Jesus Christ’s physical body

His birth

John 1:14 D-R

And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

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His bodily needs

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His physical suffering

Matthew 27:26 D-R

Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him unto them to be crucified.

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His real physical death

John 19:31–37 D-R

Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water. And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe. For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

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His burial

Mark 15:43–46 D-R

Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead. And when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And Joseph, buying fine linen and taking him down, wrapped him up in the fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.

His physical resurrection

Luke 24:37–43 D-R

But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Handle, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet. But while they yet believed not and wondered for joy, he said: Have you here any thing to eat? And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish and a honeycomb. And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave to them.

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The body of Christ symbolised in the Lord’s Supper

Matthew 26:26 D-R

And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body.

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The church as the body of Christ

Believers as members of the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:27 D-R

Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.

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Jesus Christ as the head of the body

Colossians 1:18 D-R

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

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Jesus Christ’s resurrection body is a new temple

John 2:19–22 D-R

Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had said.

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Life in the body of Christ

Baptism is into the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:13 D-R

For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

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Believers receive spiritual life through the body of Christ

Colossians 2:19 D-R

And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

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Believers care for each other in the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:25–26 D-R

That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might be mutually careful one for another. And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

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Believers have different gifts in the body of Christ

Romans 12:4–5 D-R

For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members one of another:

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