The Diversity of the Eucharist in John's Text

A lot of scholars would have thought that this would have been an insertion from later communities to find a place to put this ritualistic Eucharist into John's text. Meredith: We shouldn't read back something that does become like the central ritual and Christianity into earlier texts because they just might not have thought they were important right? A great example is the nativity story where Mary doesn't write a donkey in the Bible but she'd be dumb not to do so, says Meredith. "I think this is part of a tendency to diminish cultural tradition around what people's beliefs are"