Do This In Remembrance of Me
Why the bread? Why the wine?
Because they celebrate Incarnation and Covenant.
All four gospels tell of Jesus eating “The Last Supper” with His disciples the night He was betrayed, the eve of His going to the Cross. It was during a Passover meal, which celebrated God saving Israel from the oppression of Egypt, that Jesus took the elements of bread and wine and “repurposed” them, or redefined them as something greater than Passover. For Passover commemorated, through a sacrificial lamb and a simple meal, a temporal salvation. The Lord’s Supper commemorates the Sacrifice (Jesus Himself, the Lamb), pictured in the bread and wine. John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:18, 19; Hebrews 10:12; 1 John 2:2; 2 Corinthians 5:21