Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Verse Takeaways
1
Not Literal, But Spiritual
Commentators are nearly unanimous: Jesus is not speaking literally about eating his physical body. The Lord's Supper had not even been instituted yet. Instead, 'eating His flesh and drinking His blood' is a powerful metaphor for spiritually receiving Christ and the benefits of His sacrificial death through faith. As scholars explain, our souls feed on the truth of His incarnation and atonement.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
John
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
13
18th Century
Presbyterian
Except you eat the flesh, etc. He did not mean that this should be understood literally, for it was never done, and it is absurd …
He that eateth (ο τρωγων). Present active participle for continual or habitual eating like πιστευετε in verse 29. The verb τρωγω i…
19th Century
Anglican
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood.—The thought advances from the negative to the positive. The previous verse …
Consider supporting our work
Baptist
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say…
The last reaction of Jesus’ opponents was prompted by the apparent impossibility of his statement. They took literally the figure of eating his fle…
16th Century
Protestant
He who eats my flesh. This is a repetition, but is not superfluous; for it confirms what was difficult to believe: that souls feed on …
Get curated content & updates
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood Spiritually by faith, as explained in the preceding verse:
The flesh and blood of the Son of Man represent the Redeemer in human nature; Christ and Him crucified, and the redemption accomplished by Him, wit…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, our Lord checked the grumbling of the Jews over the origin of this spiritual food; here, he stops their dispute over the eati…
