What is the meaning of eating Jesus in John 6:57?

Question

Sorry about the question before. The verse is John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

Answer 1

It is Jesus's command to take in His body and blood. I'm a Roman Catholic and we take that literally.

As the Church, we are sustained and nourished on His flesh and blood that was freely given up for us. So when we have communion at mass, we take in Jesus's body and blood into our own bodies so that we can draw closer to Him and share in his divinity.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Jesus was not literally saying you eat His flesh and drink His blood. There is a symbolism there. Partaking of communion is kind of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. But look earlier in the chapter, when Jesus said: "I am the Bread of Life". And what about those who are non-Christians who partake of the Lord's supper not really knowing what they're doing it for or why? Granted, that doesn't mean stop partaking of communion. The main reason why I and others go to worship every Sunday is to remember Jesus and His death, and proclaim His death, burial and resurrection until He comes again by partaking of the Lord's supper or Communion. And it would be wrong not to come together on Sunday to remember Him and what He did.
But Communion is not fully what Jesus meant. It may have been part of it, but not it completely. Many partake of the Lord's table every Sunday and are still just as lost as anyone else outside of the church. Why is that? Because they ate the bread and drank the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner or they weren't really Christians in the first place, but thought they were-like if they were following the teachings of man and not God-following wolves in sheep's clothing and not making sure that what they were doing was according to the Bible-which is God's written Word to us, His guide for us, our lives and salvation.
Remember the Lord's prayer? "Give us this day our daily bread?" What is the bread He spoke about? Many say the bread we eat, meaning physical food. That is not the bread Jesus was talking about. He was talking about Himself. He is the Living Bread which we need daily as the earlier part of John 6 speaks about. Everything about Jesus, everything He is about and that make Him Who He is-Jesus Himself is what we need daily to live, is the daily Bread we need to live (especially in the spiritual sense), and is (symbolically) eating His flesh and drinking His blood. He is the Bread of Life, the Daily Bread we need to live-when we live according to what He commands, believe in Him and love Him, when we have had our souls washed by His blood (according to what the Bible teaches-hear, believe, repent, confess, be baptized, live the life-specifically baptism (being immersed under the water for a symbolic dying to self and rising to new life in Christ), because only believing does not save us-likewise, only getting baptized without believing and being converted doesn't save us), and live like He did and learn from Him and be His followers. Only when we answer the call according to the Bible and are saved by the blood of the Lamb, do we receive forgiveness, grace and everything else we need for life and godliness and salvation.
"He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." (1 John 5:12)
Look at it this way: God created us to have basic needs: air (oxygen), food and water. When those are taken away from us, we die. With our spirits and souls, we need God (Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit) or we die (spiritually). Because God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the giver and source and sustainer of all life. Without Them giving us life, we perish.

Answer 4

The Roman Catholics get this wrong EVERY TIME! And it's kind of funny, the real answer I mean. Here we have a HUGE Christian world wide church thinking that you have to transubstantiate into literal blood and literal flesh the body of Our Lord. Not only that, they have to eat it.

I admire Jesus on his ability to do the following:

He did a huge miracle across the sea, the people who were there were very impressed that they could eat for free from what was originally a very small amount of food. Not only bread, but fish. Neither substance was there in that quantity before.

The people as I said were very impressed. They wanted to do it for themselves. They wanted Jesus to show them how to feed themselves for free like that. Not only that, but they wanted to force him to be king (v. 15) ; which was something Jesus didn't want, so he ditched them (also v. 15) .

Let me write that bigger, HE DITCHED THEM.

And so they didn't know where he went, so they followed his disciples to find Jesus. ( v. 24)

They found him! (v. 25)

And these were the same people from the other side of the 'lake' who wanted to force him to become king. And they wanted to learn how to make food for themselves the way Jesus did. ( v. 26)

Jesus told them how to be in God's kingdom. They didn't pay attention to that! lol ( see verses 30 - 31 )

And they argued with him. And grumbled amongst themselves, ( vs. 41 - 42 )

Then Jesus did something that I find REALLY amazing! While telling them the truth, He completely threw them off! Knowing that it's against the Law of Moses to cannibalize a person, Jesus started telling them things that sounded like that was what he was telling them, while they had NO concept of Communion he told them that they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Jesus knew that they would continue to follow him around and Jesus decided to get them off his back. So He made THEM decide to get away from him. They no longer wanted to follow him because he said that they had to EAT him. Otherwise, no Heaven!

So offended beyond their belief, they left.

And that's the truth as I know it.

Answer 5

honestly!! People, cannabalism is eating the flesh of the dead. Jesus rose from the dead, remember? ding ding ding!
By faith we eat his flesh and drink his blood, but it is in the form of unleavened bread, and also wine. But even tho' we do not see actual flesh and actual blood, it IS Jesus!!! Why do catholics believe that? Because Jesus said so Jn cp 6!! What we receive in communion is the resurrected flesh and blood of our savior. Dont blame catholics for taking this literarly, the jews did too, thats why they left Jesus and walked with him never again!! It was beyond their faith, it was a hard saying, they questioned our Lord on the hows of it being possible, saying how can he give us his Flesh to eat??? They were appauled, and they left. But, if you read in Corinthinins on profaning the body and blood of Christ, you come to realize it is meant literaly, you CANNOT PROFANE A MERE SYMBOL? A mere symbol cannot send you to hell for profaning it, but the real flesh and blood of Jesus that he shed during his passion can be profaned, so dont receive it in the state of mortal sin, cause then you've commited a sacralege. All you unbelievers of this, I ask you this question:
was the blood Jesus shed only symbolic? or was it real? Christians, non catholics believe we drink blood and eat a piece of real flesh, like you cut someone and ateit and drink it, but Jesus wanted us to beleive it is his body and blood tho we do not see his actual flesh or see his actual blood, but in faith, we eat it and drink it in the form of bread and wine. If you still have a problem with that, I suggest you do not have a problem with the catholic church, you have a problem with Jesus Christ and his words explaining it quite literraly in jn 6.

Answer 6

Jesus is the greater Moses, by the price he paid with his blood the great passover soon to come will cover those who avail themselves of it. Just as God Gave bread from heaven to support his people in the wilderness, Jesus body is portrayed by the unlevened bread ate at the passover meal.

Answer 7

Jesus explains himself further in the chapter.

It is taking on Christ fully.

It is interesting that he uses this metaphor of eating his flesh and drinking his blood; two things that could not be more offensive to the Jews then and there.

They had to see beyond the physical in order to understand, yet all they knew and understood was the physical.

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Answer 8

Christ was the "Tree of Life." You partake of the vital life energies of something when you eat it. It becomes a part of you when, let's say, eat a peach. You not only consume, but you give those molecules a human life, and at the same time, you take in the calcium, magnesium, sugars, along with the wonderful taste of it. Elsewhere, it says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good."
He said, "I in you and you in Me." I and the Father are one." etc. The peach and you are one when you eat it. Only, this is a "Communion of Souls."

Answer 9

It's a sick vampire-cannibalism thing. Ironic that Satanists and atheists get accused of sacrificing or eating virgins or babies, when NEITHER of those groups subscribes to ANYTHING ressembling or symbolizing eating another. ONLY Christians are told to eat somebody.

Answer 10

The traditional Christian teaching on this passage is that it refers to the Eucharist (communion.)

It relates to 1 Corinthians 11, where Paul talks about Jesus' last night.

'For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."'

The same passage (more or less) is found in the gospels of Mark, Luke, and Matthew. John 6 reinforces this with a dialogue given by Jesus on his nature as the food given by God.