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They ate the Last Supper reclining.
The reason Alfred Edersheim gives to this is more than a little interesting, which can be summarised thus: The reason they ate the Last Supper, and the Passover meals in general, in a reclining position is because it was a graphic declaration and reminder to the Jewish people that they were no longer slaves.
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