When Jesus says Amen Amen (or verily verily) it must be something important He is stressing here to those listeners – something like: I am making an extremely important point here, more important than my other teachings.

Jesus didn’t say Amen Amen with every lesson.

In the next verse we read:
54 - Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

In John 6:44 : “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day”

We can equate:

“come to Jesus and you will be raised up on the last day”

“eat my flesh and drink my blood and I will raise you up on the last day”

Therefore to eat my flesh and drink my blood is to come to Jesus.

55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. (RSV)

Other translations:

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink (NIV)
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.(KJV)
For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed (NKJV)
For My flesh is true and genuine food, and My blood is true and genuine drink (AMP)
For my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink( YLT)

It puzzles me as to how else can you say “literal” food?
Everyone should put aside any prejudice and answer this:
What does Jesus have to say in order for you to believe he is talking about REAL FOOD?

Of course, we would all agree that Jesus is the True Passover Lamb.
Everyone who escaped from Egypt in the Exodus HAD to eat the original Passover lamb.

Furthermore, Jesus knows “the blood is identified with its life’ (see Leviticus).

To stay Biblical, we must look elsewhere to see context.
Response shows us that many of the disciples took Jesus literally.

We need to understand the ‘eat flesh’ sayings of Jesus within the biblical context and we have only two biblical options to choose from.
THE PRECEDENT HAS BEEN SET.
Scripture itself gives you the context on how it is to be understood – after all Jesus could only have been quoting either “context” 1 or 2.
Which ever one it was, it will give us eternal life.

You would agree that we MUST stay within the Biblical context.

You decide which context.

No wonder the disciples found this saying hard!

CONTEXT 1

Here are some ‘eating flesh’ verses in scripture in the literal sense:

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.’

CONTEXT 2

Here are some ‘eating flesh’ verses in the metaphorical/figurative sense:

Psalm 27:2,

KJV - “When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes…”

RSV - When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

Isaiah 9:20

[18] For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. [19] Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother. [20] They snatch on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours his neighbour’s flesh,

Commentary by Gary
Posted on: 6/11/2010 01:31 am

Mrs. GG - I don’t know . You’ll have to tell me a little more. What kind of church does she go to? What kind of church do you go to? What are the verses she is using? And what does she want you to do or what does she hope to accomplish by showing you these Bible verses?
Feel free to e-mail me, it will be faster.

jaysun1980@hotmail.com

Commentary by Jason
Posted on: 10/15/2009 06:29 am