53-58 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you. The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you. In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me. This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always.”
Jesus compares himself to the manah that came from heaven at Moses times. The Israelites were in the desert and they needed food. The Lord provided food for them, so that they could survive miraculously in the desert. Jesus says that he is the manah from heaven but a better manah because the one who eats Jesus will live forever. We have eternal life by believing in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. The one who eats Jesus is the one who accepts his blood in favor for his sins. I am like a sheep, distracted by the worries of this world, however, when I look to the cross, I am grateful for what the Lord has done to me.
Jesus wants some kind of Peter attitude in us:
68-69 Peter replied, “Master, to whom would we go? You have the words of real life, eternal life. We’ve already committed ourselves, confident that you are the Holy One of God.”
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