Bishop JC Ryle on the Lord’s Supper… I take down my Bible and turn to the New Testament.  There I find no less than four separate accounts of the first appointment of the Lord’s Supper.  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul, all four describe it: all four agree in telling us what our Lord did on this memorable occasion.  Only two tell us the reason why our Lord commanded that His disciples were to eat the bread and drink the cup.  Paul and Luke both record the remarkable words, “Do this in remembrance of me.”  Paul adds his own inspired comment: “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:25-26).  When Scripture speaks so clearly, why can’t men be content with it?  Why should we mystify and confuse a subject which in the New Testament is so simple?  The “continual remembrance of Christ’s death” was the one grand object for which the Lord’s Supper was ordained.  He that goes further than this is adding to God’s Word and does so to the great peril of his soul.

[Bishop JC Ryle]