[100American]

The breaking of bread and sharing of wine (Body & Blood) at the Passover Feast (Seder) is in scripture indeed, and that is where the practice starts just before the Crucifixion

[ebb tide]

Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, believed in the Real Presence. He didn’t want to speculate about metaphysics and how the bread and wine became the Body and Blood of Christ, but simply believed in the miracle of the literal presence of Jesus’ Body and Blood “alongside” the bread and wine (consubstantiation). Luther wrote:“Sooner than have mere wine with the fanatics, I would agree with the pope that there is only blood. (Confession Concerning Christ’s Supper, 1528)He rebuked the symbolic view of the Eucharist, held by the majority of Protestants today:“[S]ince we are confronted by God’s words, ‘This is my body’ – distinct, clear, common, definite words, which certainly are no trope, either in Scripture or in any language — we must embrace them with faith … not as hairsplitting sophistry dictates but as God says them for us, we must repeat these words after him and hold to them” (Ibid.).

Luther’s defense of the Real Presence in the Eucharist

[Wonder Warthog]

Indeed it is. But there is also post-scriptural evidence as well. Protestants believe neither. The whole reason for the establishment of the diaconate was to allow the Apostles (and their ordained successors) more time for the Mass.