Jesus declares for the second and third time that He is the I AM from heaven. He is the lasting and eternal bread that satisfies forever compared to the manna that rotted in the wilderness and did not keep the Israelites from death. Jesus will then give very vivid metaphorical imagery and change "believe" and "come to Him" with "eat my flesh and drink my blood." Although one may see the Lord's Supper in this, primarily its function is in establishing the need for these people to take Him in, consume Him, abide in Him and He is us. Consumption of the old bread, the old ways will lead to death but consumption the true Bread and true drink will lead to life everlasting. The Jews argue together and come to Jesus with a mocking rebuke of a question, "how can this man give us His flesh to eat?" But He's not simply a man. Every time "Son of Man" has been mentioned by Jesus in John's Gospel it has been associated with something heavenly, not earthly. Something pointing to who He is, where He's truly from, and what He came to do. They are not seeing beyond His figurative speech and seeing the manna reference. Flesh is sarx. John 1 said He took on sarx. The Heavenly has flesh now and He calls it a temple that needs to be destroyed in chapter two, now it is bread, and later it will be a vine, a gate, a sacrifice. And that's also what this points to. We would be mistaken if we thought the body and blood were only spiritual and not alluding to something bigger. This is also a prophetic foreshadow of the cross. His flesh and blood are about to be the most priceless things because upon them the wrath of God will be spent and through them He will give eternal life.
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Wade Orsini
Flesh and Blood The Gospel According to John Apologia Church Utah
Wade is Pastor/Elder of Apologia Church in Utah since it was founded in October 2021. He was raised up by the Elders at Apologia Church in Arizona for over 6 years. God saved Wade in 2012 and since then he has been committed to following Christ and getting the Gospel out into...
