It was a Passover Seder, right? So which disciple found the Afikoman? Who asked the 4 Questions?
And why were they drinking wine?
You drink 4 cups of wine at a seder.
I don’t know if the Afikoman was necessary, isn’t it a replacement for the Passover sacrifice? When, exactly, was temple sacrifices stopped? Sometime post BCE, correct?
Traditionally, Phillip, sometimes called Phillip the Younger, was the youngest apostle, and so hand to ask the 4 questions, addressed to the rabbi of the group – Jesus. I always found that strange, I always thought that John, the Beloved Apostle, was the youngest. I figured traditionally, as the supposed author of the 4th gospel, he’d live the latest and so would be the youngest. But the whole thing gets murky rapidly, unless you’re more than a passing bible scholar.
Tradition also holds that Jesus didn’t answer the 4 Questions appropriately, but instead changed the answers to initiate Christian catechism. That’s gotta be rough on Phillip … maybe a few months younger than John, saddled with the obligation to be the “kid” at the table, and then Jesus goes off script on top of it all.
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According to Wikipedia, it was definitely a Passover meal, and not a Seder. The Seder having been developed post-Temple destruction, as a remembrance of the time of the Temple.
I grew up in church, and I’ve done some study on my own regarding various religious issues. I have never heard of this so-called “tradition.” To the extent that anybody knows or can offer an educated guess, it’s pretty much universally assumed that John was the youngest, based on various indications in the Bible–mainly (but not entirely) due to the fact that he wrote Revelation somewhere around AD 95-100.