No it was not taken out of context IT WAT CRYSTAL CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE WHO LEFT. Christ didn’t chase after them and say just joking. So selective.
wat = was
Agreed. Furthermore, the people who left were scandalized and offended, because of the implication of cannibalism. Christ did not, as you said, assure them it was a metaphor, instead He used a word that translates as “munch” or “chew.”
Lets look at WHEN THEY LEFT
Jhn 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Jhn 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before?
THIS IS A CLAIM OF DIVINITY, that was blasphemy to the Jews ,now see their reaction
63 It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But there are some of you that do not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.
65 And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."
Men can not save themselves GOD has to grant it to them
66 After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.
It was not the bread, that they understood that as an analogy, that Jesus was saying He was like the manna that fed their ancestors. But then He made it clear that he had come from the Father and would return there.
67 Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also wish to go away?"
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life;
Matthew 13:
3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.
10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
34 All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.
35 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."