Jesus kept the Passover with the disciples, and when it was evening reclined at table with them.

And while they were eating, Jesus taking bread and blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body. And taking the cup and giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, Drink of it, all of you. This is my blood, the blood of the new covenant*, which is shed for many. Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19, 20.

[2] THE LORD'S TEACHING ABOUT HIS FLESH AND BLOOD, AND ABOUT BREAD AND WINE.

Work for food, not that which perishes, but that which lasts to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. Truly, truly I tell you, it was not Moses that gave you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For God's bread is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall not be hungry, and he who believes in me shall never be thirsty. I am the bread that came down from heaven. Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the desert and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that anyone who eats of it may live and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. The bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. Truly, truly I tell you: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I shall bring him back to life on the last day. For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. John 6:27, 32, 33, 35, 41, 47-51, 53-56.

* Or: testament; see 706:2.