Here’s some plain language of scripture.
26:26. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body.
This is my body…He does not say, This is the figure of my body—but This is my body. (2 Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in this, or with this is my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which plainly implies transubstantiation.
Did he speak English?
No, he spoke Hebrew, in which it was clear that he meant that the Levened Barley loaf he held represented his soon to be broken body.
The blessing that he spoke can be found in Nunbers 6:24.
Yeshua’s request of us was that as often as we break bread and say that blessing, we do it in remembrance of him.
All the mystical cannibalism came hundreds of years later when the pagan catholic church was created by Constantine and his pagan priestess mom.
If that garbage is more important to you than Yeshua, so be it.
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Minor point, This in no way "implies" transubstantiation, It screams it from the rooftops in Gory and Truth!< P>Sadly it will fall on deaf ears. There are to many here that have to large an axe to grind.
Luk_22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
And Jesus says he will not drink any more of his own blood until the Kingdom of God shows up...
It's amazing all of the scripture that your religion has to trash to make your transubstantiation work...
And well enough He didn't say it that way. It would be passing strange to explicitly label an obvious metaphor so awkwardly and academically, and quite alien to Jesus' style of communication. Jesus didn't say "A door is a figure of me." Would have been totally weird, wouldn't it? Nobody talks that way. You just use the verb of being, "All the world's a stage," and presto, you have a direct metaphor. Google it. I'm not the one to blame for the existence of direct metaphors.