# bread

This was a flat loaf of unleavened bread, which was eaten as part of the Passover meal.

# broke it

This means that he broke the bread into pieces for the people to eat. Alternate translation: "broke it into pieces" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# Take this. This is my body

"Take this bread. It is my body." Though most understand this to mean that the bread is a symbol of Jesus' body and that it is not actual flesh, it is best to translate this statement literally. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-symlanguage]])