And many of his followers left him because that was too hard of a saying.
And many non-Catholics have forsaken the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist too.
A loss to those people who left Jesus, and a loss to those who refuse to believe in transubstantiation.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
But alas, Catholics, being predominantly pagan influenced as they are, insist its the flesh.