German scholar Heinrich Meyer observes Seeing that the body of Jesus was still unbroken still living, and that, as yet, His blood had not been shed, none of the guests the apostles can have supposed that they were in reality eating and drinking the very body and blood of the Lord, so Jesus Himself could not have intended His simple words to be understood in a sense which they did not then admit of
[ तळटीप] हाइनरिक मेयर हे जर्मन विद्वान म्हणतात की आपण खरोखरच येशूचे शरीर व रक्‍त सेवन करत आहोत असा प्रेषितांनी विचार करणे शक्यच नव्हते.