Which event is most closely associated with the institution of the Eucharist?

• A. The Last Supper
• B. The Baptism of Jesus
• C. The Sermon on the Mount
• D. The Temptation in the Desert

Answer: (A)

The Last Supper is where Jesus establishes the practice Christians call the Eucharist. During the meal, he takes bread, gives thanks, and says, “This is my body,” then takes a cup of wine, saying, “This is my blood,” and invites the disciples to eat and drink in remembrance of him. This moment inaugurates a ritual of communion that Christians continue: bread as a sign of his body and wine as a sign of his blood, a ongoing act of memorial participation in his saving work. The setting also connects to the Passover idea of deliverance, now reinterpreted in Jesus’s sacrificial withion. The other events—Jesus’s baptism, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Temptation in the Desert—are important in Jesus’s ministry, but they do not institute the act of the Eucharist itself.