I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day
JOHN 6:48-54 NKJV
John 6:48, 49 Christ is the bread of life. Those who believe in Him have life (v. 47). The manna in the wilderness did not ultimately sustain life. Those who ate it eventually died because it could not provide everlasting life.
John 6:50, 51 Eats of this bread is a synonym for faith (vv. 35, 48–50).
John 6:52 flesh to eat: They took in a nonfigurative way what was figurative.
John 6:53–54 Christ complicates the situation further by adding unless you … drink His blood. The Jews were forbidden to drink blood (Lev 7:26, 27) and this additional statement must have added insult to injury. However, the Jews misunderstood. Lev. 17:11 clearly states that life is in the blood. Accepting the sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ is the basis for eternal life.
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