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you must have missed, skipped over or ignored John 6 then or are those versus missing from your Bible??

John 6:25-69:

Following the details of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes—biographical, Jesus walking on the sea—biographical, Jesus reacts to the crowds’ need for signs. Jesus takes them from manna, bread from heaven, to “true bread from heaven (v. 32)” ... “I am the bread (v. 35).” “I am the bread that came down from heaven (v. 41).” This is God saying this: “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” If He was not really the bread that came down from heaven, His omnipotent and creative Word would then have made it so.

Five times in different verbal expressions, Jesus confirmed the reality of the meaning he intended.

Jn 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.
Jn 6:53
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.”
Jn 6:54
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
Jn 6:55
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Jn 6:56
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.

The best way a person can make a clear literal point is repetition of the same message in different ways. Jesus did this. Those around him clearly understood what he was saying—cannibalism and the drinking of blood—both forbidden by Mosaic Law.

Jn 6:60,66
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” ... As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him - is this you ravenwolf??

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