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"No, they were unable to accept the literal meaning of His words, and so He let them go." The Jews were expecting Him to establish David's throne again and when He said He must die, they then drifted away. Just before this exchange, Jesus had fed the thousands with a few loaves and fishes, yet the disciples asked for a sign of His Kingship.

John 6: 63
26 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. [Here is the key to the passage, and it is not a cannibalistic, blood-frinking gastronomic heresies such as the Catholic Chruch teaches in the Eucharist. The bread and wine are IN REMEMBRANCE at the Lord's table. What the faux Christianity Catholicism teaches violates the very nature of God! From the beginning God told mankind not to drink the blood of any animal. The Life is in the blood. We are to let the life, in the blood, go out upon the ground. ] This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." [This is not a cannibalistic heresy, it is the plan of Salvation, the means of Justification. Yet Catholicism drives it home into catholic minds to commit an act contrary to God's own nature! And to do this over and over again, as if somehow the catholic heresies can renew salvation, renew God's Grace, over and over and over! Enough already. You heretics are modern cannibals, not Christians! Get this through your dead minds, that Jesus even starts the passage exposing you cannibals: v26 "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled."]
v47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. ['By faith/belief are ye saved not of works lest any repetitive cannibalistic catholic should boast'; Jes us was not teaching them to be cannibals for that is contrary to God's nature. Jews knew it then, but apparently blind and dumb catholics are ignorant of Whom God IS.] I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. [Anyone may eat of this bread BY BELIEVING IN HIM, not by cannibalizing His body and blood, over and over and over and over, in a rite designed to Nicolaitanize Christianity.]

How can you be so double minded, to miss the lesson so completely? If you are saying the literal meaning is to cannibalize, eat transubstantiated (transmogrified, like Calvin's imaginary monsters) bread and wine as flesh and blood of Jesus, and those disciples who left were leaving because the literal meaning is contrary to God's nature, then the ones who left were obeying what they had been taught regarding YHWH.

But if the meaning is to practice this rite of bread and wine in REMEMBRANCE of His sacrificing His body for us on the Cross, and His blood upon the Mercy seat, and the disciples could not abide this offering which meant He would die soon, well then you are on the proper track to Honor The Grace of God in Christ!