Only under one condition can the words “this is” be understood either to indicate or to reveal and to effect transubstantiation, consubstantiation, a symbolic function, a transfunctionalization, transsignification, or similar changes that seem mutually exclusive and that have separated churches from one another. The condition exists when interpreters despise or ignore the Passover framework in which the Synoptic writers embedded their accounts of the institution of the Lord’s Supper. If, however,