Duh. They weren't at the Last Supper. The Apostles didn't get it at the time either. Duh.
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Ah, so the unbelievers got it and the Apostles were too ignorant to get it. I see, I get the picture. The spiritually blind understood while the spiritually accute were morons. Interesting given your prior stances on this. The incredulity is that they percieved wrongly that Jesus was talking about cannibalism - he was not. It had nothing to do with the imagery he was using to hide the truth in plain sight. The imagery was merely to convey that his body would be broken and his spirit released - he would have to die for them. And unless they believed on him as he had warned, they could not have eternal life. Communion is for those who have already believed and have been born again. It's a remembrance celebrated by those who have been born again. You're mixing the or do you not realize that you don't go and get married and then run across town to get a tux so you can get married in it. You have your events miscombobulated.
It's like the absurd notion that Baptism in water washes away sin. Ignorance. John's baptism was and is a baptism of REPENTANCE - not of cleansing from sin. One doesn't prepare the way for the savior by saving everyone before he arrives. Do you even know what it means to Repent? John's baptism is a public announcement that Hey, I've screwed up and I'm dedicating myself not to any further. Indeed, Repent! "For the day of the Lord is at hand. Stop sinning for salvation is within reach." The perversions that arise when unbelievers are overtaken by pretense..