For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
At the gathering each one took his own supper ahead of the others instead of waiting for one another. The meal held before communion was turned by the wealthy into a feast, while the poor were shamed as their meager food stood beside the rich fare. That selfish eating made the gathering a place of feasting and revelry rather than a fitting occasion to remember Christ's death.
At the gathering each one took his own supper ahead of the others instead of waiting for one another. The meal held before communion was turned by the wealthy into a feast, while the poor were shamed as their meager food stood beside the rich fare. That selfish eating made the gathering a place of feasting and revelry rather than a fitting occasion to remember Christ's death.