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Agape Feast
ἀγάπη (agapē)
A communal love feast shared by early Christians alongside the Lord's Supper.
Greek
Pronunciation: ah-GAH-pay
Definition
The Agape Feast was a shared meal in the early church that expressed Christian love and unity, often held in connection with the Lord's Supper, reflecting the community's care for one another.
Featured KJV occurrences (3)
Jude 1:12
“These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.”Read in context
1 Corinthians 11:20-21
“When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”Read in context
Acts 2:46
“And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.”Read in context
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