[[Or is that merely legend?..]]
If it’s merely legend, and if everythign is open to subjective interpretation, and becomes allegory, or metaphor, then we have no reason to accept ANYTHING in God’s word as literal. Do we pick and hcoose which accounts to take literally? which to take metaphorically? If we can’t trust the I am, can’t trust the TRUTH, can’t figure out which is actually literal, and which is metaphorical, then there are no absolutes to cling to, and everythign becomes subjective, and nothing becomes right or wrong.
Some things are metaphor(parables) and some things are literal in the Bible.. Which is which is not always apparent.. To say the bible is 100% literal is obvious wrong and maybe even a lie.. sometimes.. Jesus and the hebrew language itself uses many language instruments.. like simile and parable.. and other word pictures/images..
Jesus talked of eating his flesh and drinking his blood, which was a real mystery, to those overlooking that he said that the night of the passover feast.. which was about roasting a lamb(eating it) and using its blood in a historical sense.. to overcome the death angel.. All being a Jewish ceremony of remembrance.. Most if not all at the last supper GRASPED the significance of those words.. even if they didnt know of the NEXT days proceedings.. i.e. cruxifiction.. They grasped that Jesus was the metaphorical lamb of the passover.. Only to learn later in the week that cruxifiction could not actually kill YOU.. but YOU could rise again..
Those at the supper that didnt understand Jesus metaphor were OFFENDED... probably literalists..