During one of His teaching sessions, Jesus delivered an instruction that was hard to understand. Some of those who heard it said so. “This is a difficult statement. Who can listen to it?” John 6: 60

Jesus’ statement was, “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh. He 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. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.” John 6: 54-57

Their carnal minds weren’t able to spiritually discern what Jesus was saying. They couldn’t understand how one could eat and drink the flesh and blood of the Son of Man in order to live. I’m sure many of them were thinking literal cannibalism. Disgusted, they walked away.  John 6: 66

Jesus turned to His inner circle, the twelve disciples. Perhaps He did that so that the other remaining listeners would overhear and understand the point of His message from those who believed. Jesus asked the twelve if they too wanted to leave because of what He had said. Peter spoke up and said, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.” John 6: 68

Those who had patiently waited now had the answer. They now understood Jesus’ assertion that He was the bread of life. It clicked in their minds, Jesus having earlier said, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” John 6: 63

We eat His flesh and drink His blood – not literally from a wafer and communion cup as some today claim and teach – but from ingesting through faith, His words.