Unknown Luther and Zwingli on the Lord’s Supper Luther and Zwingli on the Lord’s Supper In 1529, Philip of Hesse, one of the Protestant princes of Germany, arranged for a meeting with the leading theologians of Switzerland and Germany. He wanted them to reach an agreement about the doctrines of the Lord’s Supper. This meeting was held in Marburg. Luther and Philip Melanchthon,14 who was Luther’s greatest helper and an able theologian, represented Luther’s teaching that although the bread and wine do not literally change into the body and blood of the Lord Jesus, He is still physically present in, with, and under the bread. Ulrich Zwingli,15 the leading Reformer in Switzerland, who took his friend Johannes Œcolampadius,16 supported the belief that the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is only a memorial to the death of the Lord Jesus. Sad to say, each side was unwilling to compromise. When they parted ways, Luther refused to shake Zwingli’s hand as a brother in Christ. Zwingli was grieved over this. Sometimes God’s people have differences of opinion and differences in their beliefs, and often hard feelings result. This is not what God teaches. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:10, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.”