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Point #1: Why does Christ, after having used a more plain word like "phagete" ="eat", when the Jews propound difficulty with what he was saying, switches to use the word "trwgwn"--"gnaw/chew" which is much more vivid, much more fleshy, and is not a word that is used metaphorically in the NT.
Point #2. Someone asked the question how do we know that this statement is to be taken literally when other statements in the Bible "I gather you under my wings", etc. are clearly not. But in none of those cases did Christ say "I am a true bird" or anything like that, whereas here he *did* say my flesh is *true* flesh, my blood is *true* drink.
Point #3: If Christ's "gnaw" is to be taken metaphorically, and that's what he meant in verse 63 when he said "..the flesh benefits nothing", why, then, in line 66 do his disciples leave him anyway? There would have been no reason to leave if the literalness of the passage (which is clearly what the Jews had the problem with) was retracted.