You go ahead and believe whatever you want to interpret Scripture to mean. I prefer to take Jesus at His word.
You might want to take Him at His leading and teaching. Typically this means tying in a scripture passage to many others (primarily) and to natural evidence (secondarily) and to extrabiblical evidence (tertiarily).
And you clearly believe you are interpreting what Jesus said so that it supports the way that you want to believe. I presume my self to be believing what scriptures teach based upon the many places in scripture that remain consistent with the perspective I believe. I am also relying on common sense with regard to what the believers in Asia Minor, under the leadership of John and possibly Philip, and then Polycarp were doing, keeping the 14 Nisan Passover meal as a remembrance of Jesus as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. It is this opposite belief quandary which drove Polycarp to Rome, to oppose heresies. And there were thriving men like Marcion, under the wing of Anicetus.
Clearly these guys are SNAKES; for Jesus SAID so!!
Matthew 23:33
"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
If you truly prefer to “take Jesus at his word”, then you will also take him at his word when he tells you that by believing in him you have eternal life. Do you believe you have eternal life and are saved by your faith in him?