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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 6:52-59
  by J.C. Ryle
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Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in
yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true
food, and my blood is true drink. The one who eats my flesh and drinks
my blood resides in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me,
and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live
because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not
like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats
this bread will live forever." Jesus said these things while he was
teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Few passages of Scripture have been so painfully twisted and perverted
as that which we have now read. The Jews are not the only people who
have striven about its meaning. A sense has been put upon it, which it
was never intended to bear. Fallen man, in interpreting the Bible, has
an unhappy aptitude for turning food into poison. The things that were
written for his benefit, he often makes an occasion for falling.

Let us first consider carefully, what these verses do NOT mean. The
"eating and drinking" of which Christ speaks do not mean any literal
eating and drinking. Above all, the words were not spoken with any
reference to the Sacrament of the Lord\

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