1 Corinthians 10:16
Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
Acts 2:46
Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
Acts 20:11
Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.
Neither the gospel accounts of the institution of the Supper nor Acts 2:42 nor 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 declare a day on which the Supper is to be observed. However, through an approved apostolic example and inferences from the New Testament, the day for its observance is clear-- the first day of the week.
While travelling and preaching the gospel, the apostle Paul came to Troas. Upon arriving in the city he stayed seven days.
“Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight” (Acts 20:7). Just as “the breaking of bread” in Acts 2:42 seemingly refers of the Lord’s Supper, so here, “to break bread” seemingly refers to the Lord’s Supper. These disciples, or Christians (Acts 11:26), assembled on the first day of the week to take the Lord’s Supper.
There is no example in the New Testament of another day on which Christians, or members of the Lord’s church, came together to eat the Supper.
but God Bless you in your choice of Saturday, if that is is so.
Act 20:7 And upon the
first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
In the highlighted phrase
first day of the week
The word for first is:
G3391
μία
mia
mee'-ah
Irregular feminine of G1520; one or first: - a (certain), + agree, first, one, X other.
Yep, means first.
If you carefully note, the word day is in italics. Check and you will find that words in italics were not in the Greek but were added by the translators of the 1611 KJV. Day is not really in the Greek manuscripts.
the words "of the" were derived from the Greek word...
G3588
ὁ, ἡ, τό
ho hē to
ho, hay, to
The masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom): - the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
And means the definite article.
The word the translators got "week" from is...
G4521
σάββατον
sabbaton
sab'-bat-on
Of Hebrew origin [H7676]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: - sabbath (day), week.
Here is how the Diaglott translates Acts 20:7...
Act 20:7 In and the first of the sabbaths, having been assembled of us to break bread, the Paul discoursed to them, being about to depart on the morrow; continued and the discourse till midnight.
So the discourse continued until midnight and then the next day he walked 19 miles acorss the peninsula to Assos to meet the disciples
Act 20:13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
Act 20:14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
Walking nineteen miles is an odd way to keep Sunday as the Sabbath.