LOL, again with the single verse, out of context, sheep suit disguise.
Why not post all of John 6 ?
Including the part where Christ reiterates that His flesh and His blood are meat and drink indeed ?
Why not the portion of the same Chapter where Christ says he will raise up those who eat His flesh and drink His blood ?
Of course, folks are wise to the sheep disguise and the ravening wolves playing that single verse game aren't fooling anyone.
Here's a bit of the same chapter, those who actually care about Scripture should read the entire Chapter and then they'll see exactly how that out of context quote to which I replied is not the entire statement of His Will. Not by a long shot.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him ; and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets : And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.
John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father ; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.
John 6:47 Amen, amen I say unto you : He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.
John 6:48 I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.
John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven ; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
John 6:52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever ; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.
John 6:53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying : How can this man give us his flesh to eat ?
John 6:54 Then Jesus said to them :Amen, amen I say unto you : Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.
John 6:55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life : and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:56 For my flesh is meat indeed : and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.
John 6:58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.
John 6:59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
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.64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.,BR. 68 Simon Peter answered him “Lord, to whom shall we go? YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE
69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
Your pope did not ask for THIS BREAD... he asked for the words of eternal life...
Verse 63 tells exactly what Christ meant, and it wasn't physical eating.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
The WORDS are Spirit and the WORDS are life.
The flesh is no help at all.