Jesus' words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood symbolize the necessity of accepting his teachings and the sacrifice he made for humanity, leading to spiritual life and salvation (John 6:53-58).
In what sense are we to understand Jesus’ words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood?What was Jesus’ point? Clearly, Jesus was speaking in a figurative sense, as he had done earlier when he told a Samaritan woman: “Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life.” (John 4:7, 14) Jesus was not suggesting that the Samaritan woman would get everlasting life simply by drinking certain literal water. Similarly, he was not saying that the crowds he spoke to in Capernaum would live forever if they ate his literal flesh and drank his literal blood.
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