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. ”
जर्मनी के एक विद्वान हाइनरिख मेयर का कहना है कि प्रेषितों ने ऐसा हरगिज़ नहीं सोचा होगा कि वे सचमुच में यीशु का शरीर खा रहे हैं और उसका लहू पी रहे हैं, क्योंकि “यीशु का शरीर उस वक्‍त तक सही - सलामत (जीवित) था । ”