What Does "Eat My Flesh" Mean? (PART I)

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So, let's get started. In John chapter 6, Jesus is quoted as saying, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

Now, among all Christians, whether Catholic Christian or Protestant Christian, they all believe that Jesus taught this. Nobody is denying that Jesus taught this. This teaching is found in every Christian's Bible. Every Christian believes Jesus taught this. That being said, there is a wee bit of a debate as to what this means. You see, one side, we'll call it Side A, believes that Jesus did want people to literally eat his actual flesh, and Jesus did want people to literally drink his actual blood. Now, the other side, which we'll call Side B, believes that Jesus did not want people to literally eat his actual flesh, and they believe that Jesus did not want people to literally drink his actual blood.

Now, here at the start of the video, you don't have to know which side you're on, but if you think you do, that's okay too. Because no matter whether you're on this side or this side, here's one fact that both sides can agree on: both sides are not correct. Either Side A is correct and Side B is incorrect, or Side B is correct and Side A is incorrect. These two beliefs are directly opposed to each other. So if this side's right, then this side's wrong. And if this side's right, then this side's wrong. So no matter which side you're on, this is something that both sides have to agree with, unless you're dealing with someone who's delusional, who thinks that both of these these sides can be correct at the same time.

Now, another thing that both of these sides should agree on is that what Jesus said here is very important. He said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." So, according to the Bible, Jesus said, "You have no life in you unless you do this, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood." So, whether you're on this side or this side, you have to believe that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. So both sides should be saying, "Well, if I want life in me, I've got to do this. I have to eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood."

Now, obviously, these two sides disagree as to what that means, but it doesn't change the fact that we have to do that in order to have life in us. So both of these sides should realize how important it is to know what this actually means. Is it what Side A is saying? Is it really talking about eating Jesus's flesh and drinking his blood? Or is it what Side B is saying? Is it not talking about actually eating his flesh and drinking his blood, but talking about something else that's figuratively being discussed using this phrase of eating the flesh and drinking the blood? So, yeah, this conversation is important to Christians on both sides because no matter what this means, one thing that both sides have to agree on is this is important. Unless we do this, then we don't have life in us. So Christians everywhere should be concerned with this. They should be trying to figure out, "What does this really mean?" There's a debate going on. Does it mean this? Or does it mean that? If you don't have any idea which side is correct, keep on watching. If you think you know which side is correct, keep on watching because we're going to read from the Bible. And while we'll read the Bible, we're also going to have this timeline up here so you can see where everything lands on that timeline, just so you can visually see how everything fits together chronologically.

So now, let's take Paul's advice to the Corinthians. He said, "Examine yourselves to see whether you were in the faith. Test yourselves." Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you fail to meet the test? One of these sides is failing to meet the test when it comes to this issue. One of these sides is not in the faith when it comes to this issue. One of these sides is wandering from the truth. But the good news news is they can be brought back. James writes, "My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins." So whether you've chosen a side or not, examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Because there's no way around this fact: one of these two sides is wandering from the truth. This is Bible me. What does it mean to eat the flesh of Christ?

Now, who's ready to do some reading? Luke 2: "In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria." Quirinius, Quirin, this dude was the governor of Syria. "And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn."

"And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, 'Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.'"

"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased.'"

"When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, 'Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.' And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning the child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them."

"And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb."

So, on the timeline, we'll plot a point right here, and this is when Jesus was born. This was when he was laid in a manger in Bethlehem. Now, what exactly is a manger? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a manger is "a trough or open body in a stable designed to hold feed or fodder for livestock." So, Jesus was laid in a manger, and a manger was commonly used to hold actual edible food. So when Jesus was laid in the manger, that means Jesus's flesh was in a container for actual edible food. But is Jesus's flesh actual edible food? Luke chapter 2 doesn't give us that answer. So at this point, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

Now, as we just read here, the angel said to the shepherds, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." So the angel tells the shepherds when the baby was born, where the baby was born, and who the baby is. So that's going to be helpful information when these shepherds try to locate this baby. They also know that the baby's going to be wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. So they were given five details here, but only two of those five details are called a sign by the angel. The angel said, "And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." So all of this information here is going to be helpful in locating the baby. But why are these two things called a sign? Why would it be a sign that the baby is wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger?

Anyway, another thing we could take note of here is that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and the word Bethlehem in Hebrew means "House of Bread." Now, we're going to learn about this later on in the video, but both of these sides believe that Jesus is the bread of life. Life. So, yeah, Jesus being born in Bethlehem, the House of Bread, both sides could say that's probably not a coincidence.

John 1: "So we've got this point right here on the timeline. This is when Jesus was born. So let's go forwards in time a little bit to when John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me." I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.' And John bore witness: 'I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit." And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.'"

So, John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God. John the Baptist also bore witness that Jesus is the Son of God. But that nickname, what's the deal with that? John called Jesus the Lamb of God. He said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." Lamb of God. Anyway, that happened here on the timeline.

Now, let's jump all the way back here to the days of a guy named Moses. Exodus 11 and 12: "The Lord said to Moses, 'Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor for silver and gold jewelry.' And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people."

"So Moses said, 'Thus says the Lord: About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.'" I just imagine that this girl here was just like playing hide-and-seek at the time with her kids, and here's Moses saying, "Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who's behind the hand mill." And she's just like, "Wow, thanks Moses. Thought I had a pretty sweet hiding spot here behind the hand mill, but you know, you just announced it to the world. So guess I got to move. And what was that you said about my firstborn?" Yeah, so every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die. "There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.' Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land."

"The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 'This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their father's houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male, a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lentil of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn in this manner. You shall eat it with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.'"

So, there was going to be one plague more. Firstborns were going to die. Death was going to come to people unless they did something very specific. If they ate the flesh of the lamb and they put some of the lamb's blood on the doorpost and the lentil of the houses in which they were eating the flesh of the lamb, then they would be passed over. No plague will befall them to destroy them. If they ate the flesh of the lamb and marked the houses in which they ate the flesh of the lamb with the lamb's blood. So, at the first Passover, the literal flesh and blood of the lamb, if used correctly, could save people. It could save firstborns.

Now, as we learned, Jesus was called a lamb, and Jesus talked about his flesh and his blood and how you could not have life in you unless you ate his flesh and drank his blood. But the question is, was Jesus being literal there, or was he being figurative? Now, both sides agree that at the first Passover, people were literally eating the flesh of the lamb. But when it comes to Jesus's teaching about eating his flesh, that's where there's a disagreement. Side A thinks Jesus is talking about literally eating the flesh of the lamb, and Side B thinks Jesus is talking about figuratively eating the flesh of the lamb.

Now, don't get the wrong idea here. Just because Side A has a little more in common with the past than Side B does, that doesn't prove that Side A is right. There's nothing in the Bible that says, "Hey, your teaching from the day has to match teachings from the past." So this could just be a fortunate coincidence for Side A. This could still be anybody's game.

Exodus chapter 16: "Anyway, we were just at the first Passover. Let's go a tiny bit into the future of that, and this is where there was the parting of the Red Sea." Most of you watching are probably already familiar about what happened here. "But Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, 'Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.' Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen.' So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea. Not one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians. So the people feared the Lord and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses."

"So that day, the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians. After that, all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from in the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the people of Israel said to them, 'Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'"

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.'"

"So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, 'At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?' And Moses said, 'When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the Lord.' Then Moses said to Aaron, 'Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, "Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling."'"

"And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the Wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. And the Lord said to Moses, 'I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, "At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God."'"

"In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the Wilderness a fine flakelike thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, 'What is it?' for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, 'It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.'"

"So the Lord rained bread from heaven. It was the bread that the Lord had given those people to eat. Now the house of Israel called its name Manna. It was like coriander seed white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Moses said, 'This is what the Lord has commanded: Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' And Moses said to Aaron, 'Take a jar, and put an omer of Manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.' As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. The people of Israel ate the Manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the Manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan." Oh, in case anybody was curious, an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. So that should clear things up for you.

Anyway, the reason why we're reading this is because this topic about the Manna, the bread from heaven being rained down, this stuff which happened right here on the timeline, is going to be talked about again right here on the timeline at a place called Capernaum.

John chapter 6: "Okay, so on the timeline, here we are back in the days of Jesus, and we're going to look at something that Jesus taught at Capernaum. But there's actually something that happened the day before, and that's where we're going to start. So Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias, and a large crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the Feast of the Jews, was at hand." And you all know what the Passover is because we just read about that in Exodus. Remember? It was that thing with the lamb, and you eat the flesh of the lamb, and you use the blood of the lamb to make sure that certain people didn't end up with no life in them. Yeah, you remember the Passover. So, yeah, the Passover, the Feast of the Jews, was at hand.

"Lifting up his eyes then and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, 'Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?'" Now, something interesting here is that Philip is the one being asked this question. Jesus is asking about feeding these people, trying to fill them up, so he's asking Philip about the uh, about the Philip, Philip, and and the Philip, this guy is a [blank]. Thank you, you get it.

"Lifting up his eyes then and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, 'Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?' He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.' One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 'There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?' Jesus said, 'Have the people sit down.' Now there was much grass in the place, so the men sat down, about 5,000 in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, 'Gather the leftover fragments that nothing may be lost.' So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten."

"When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, 'This is indeed the Prophet who has come into the world.' Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. But he said to them, 'It is I; do not be afraid.' Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going."

"On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had only been one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?'"

Okay, so now Jesus, his disciples, and the crowd are all in Capernaum. And as we're going to learn, Jesus is going to teach something here. In fact, Jesus is going to teach a bunch of things here. So we're actually going to have this list. This is going to be a list of all the things that John's gospel says Jesus taught at Capernaum.

"The crowd got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?' And Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.'"

All right, so right out of the gate, we got a few things that Jesus is teaching here. The first thing is a specific teaching about the people who were seeking him. According to Jesus, they were seeking him not because they they saw signs, but because they ate their fill of the loaves. So that's one teaching we can add to the list here of things that Jesus taught at Capernaum according to John's gospel. Another teaching comes right after that. Jesus says, "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you." So add them to the list. Jesus does not want people to work for the food that perishes, but Jesus does want people to work for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. So don't work for this food, but do work for this food. That's what Jesus taught. Those are teachings that Jesus delivered at Capernaum. Both Side A and Side B have to agree that that is what Jesus taught because that is what Jesus taught. That's right there in everybody's Bible. Don't work for this food, but do work for this food. So let's go ahead and jot that down. There is this thing that Jesus wants people to work for, and one thing we know about this thing is that it is food. Now, is this a literal food? Is it not a literal food? We don't know the answer to that yet, not from verse 27. It just says food. So that's all we're saying. Now, we also find out that this thing endures to eternal life, and we know that the Son of Man will give this thing. So whether you're on Side A or Side B, if you believe in the Bible, then you believe in this. You believe that Jesus told people to work for a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. So as we go through this teaching here, we should be on the lookout for a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give, because that's the food that Jesus said to work for. So no matter which side you're on, we should be working for that food, whatever it ends up being.

"Jesus said, 'Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.' Then they said to him, 'What must we do to be doing the works of God?' Jesus answered them, 'This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.'"

Okay, so Jesus told them to work for this food. Jesus didn't specify what this food was yet. He just said it's food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. Then the people ask, "What must we do to be doing the works of God?" And Jesus responds, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So that's another teaching: the work of God is that people believe in him whom he has sent.

So how did they respond to this? Jesus said, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the Manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" So they're talking about what we just read in Exodus. They're talking about the Manna, or the bread from heaven. They're asking Jesus about a sign.

Jesus said, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So they say, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?" So that kind of seems to imply that they know that they don't believe yet. They're asking for a sign that they may see and believe. They're asking what work do you perform, and they bring up what happened before with the Manna. "Our fathers ate the Manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

"They said to him, 'Sir, give us this bread always.'"

So Jesus just taught a couple more things there. It was not Moses who gave the people the bread from heaven, but Jesus's Father gives people the true bread from heaven. And as we know, Jesus's Father is God. That's what John the Baptist bore witness to. We can also read in John chapter 5 that the Jews were seeking to kill Jesus because he was calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus taught that it was not Moses who gave people the bread from heaven, but God gives people the true bread from heaven. The other thing Jesus taught there was that "the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." And when Jesus said that, we're told that the people said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always."

But did you notice what Jesus just said there? He said, "The bread of God is he." That's typically not the pronoun you use to refer to your bakery products. Like, I have something in my hand right now. Do you know what it is? What is it? What is it? Notice how I'm asking, "What is it?" because "it" is the more common pronoun when talking about bread. It is bread. It is delicious. It is a bad idea to snack on this while you're trying to make a video, but it is really good. So, anyway, Jesus said...

So anyway, Jesus just referred to the bread of God as a "he," and the people said, "Sir, give us this bread always." To which Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe."

So we've got even more teachings here. Jesus said, "I am the bread of life." Jesus said, "Whoever comes to me shall not hunger." And Jesus said, "Whoever believes in me shall never thirst." So let's take a look at these two things real quick. Jesus talked about people coming to him, and he also talked about people believing in him. Now, we know these people did not believe in him. They're asking for a sign so that they may believe. So they seem to know that they don't believe yet. But even Jesus verifies they don't believe. So Jesus talked about coming to him and believing in him, and he specifically tells them, "You do not believe."

Now, were they coming to Jesus? Well, it depends on what that means, because they definitely were coming to Jesus, like physically coming to him. They were seeking him. They were on the other side of the sea, they got into boats, they went to Capernaum, they were seeking Jesus, and they found him. So they were coming to Jesus, at least in that sense. So if that's what Jesus means here by "whoever comes to me," then yeah, they were coming to him. But in this video, I'm not going to tell you whether this "coming to Jesus" is the same as the "coming to Jesus" that they were doing, because in this debate, that really doesn't matter. You see, because Jesus discussed two things here: coming to him and believing in him. And the only one of those two things that he's quoted as saying they weren't doing was the believing part. So of these two things, coming to Jesus and believing in Jesus, the one thing Jesus is quoted as saying they weren't doing was the believing part. Which means it's entirely possible that they were doing the coming part.

And what does Jesus say next? He says, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out." Now, this here is Fuzz. He's a friend of the show, and this is me casting Fuzz out. Whoever comes to Jesus, he will never cast out. So none of this from Jesus, at least for whoever comes to him, he's never going to cast them out.

Now, let's say from here on out, I make the same promise to Fuzz here. I say, "If you come to me, I will never cast you out." So if Fuzz decides to come to me, I'm not going to cast him out. I'll never cast him out. I'm going to let him be here because he came to me, and I said I'm never going to cast him out. But what's that? What's happening? Fuzz is turning back. He's no longer walking with me. That's totally allowed, because even though I am never going to cast Fuzz out, he can still turn back and no longer walk with me. So Jesus tells these people, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out." But as we're going to read in a little bit, many of Jesus's disciples will turn back and no longer walk with him. So, yeah, Jesus is never going to cast people out if they're coming to him, but that doesn't mean they can't turn back on their own. That doesn't mean they can't walk with him no longer. It just means Jesus won't cast them out.

And look at this crowd here. They came to Jesus. They were on the other side of the sea, they got into their boats, they went to Capernaum, they were seeking Jesus, they found him. And when they got there, did Jesus cast them out? No, he started teaching them. Now, why is it that Jesus will never cast people out? Well, Jesus explains that he says, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out, for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me." And what is the will of him who sent Jesus? Well, this is the will of him who sent Jesus: that Jesus should lose nothing of all that God has given him, but raise it up on the last day.

So why is it that whoever comes to Jesus, he will never cast out? Because he came down from heaven to lose nothing of all that God has given him, but raise it up on the last day. And why is that God's will for Jesus? Because of God's other will. Because God God wills that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. So if they look and believe, then they should have eternal life, and God wants Jesus to raise him up on the last day. So because that's God's will for people, that's why this is God's will for Jesus. God's will is that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life. So if somebody is doing these two things, if they are looking on the Son and they are believing in Him, they should have eternal life, and God wants Jesus to raise him up on the last day.

Day, now did these two things sound familiar to you? Looking on the sun and believing in him?

Let's go back to what Jesus just got done telling the people. Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe."

So they've seen him, but they don't believe. And what are the two things that Jesus talks about people doing that should get them eternal life and raised up on the last day? Jesus says, "This is the will of my Father that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day."

So these two things, if somebody does them, they should have eternal life and be raised up. So again, what we know for sure is that they don't believe. They may be coming to Jesus because we know that they did come to Jesus in this sense. They may be looking on the sun because we know that they were looking on the sun in this sense. But the problem that Jesus highlighted here is that they didn't believe. Jesus knows that they are seeking him, and he knows why they're seeking him. Jesus knows that they have seen him, but the thing is, they don't believe. And if they don't believe, then it's not guaranteed under this will that they should have eternal life, because it's for everyone who looks and believes.

Now, the next thing we're told is this: So the Jews grumbled about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." They said, "Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

So of all of these things that Jesus just taught here, here's the stuff that John's gospel tells us they questioned. The Jews grumbled about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." They said, "Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

So Jesus is telling them that the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. And they want this bread. They say, "Sir, give us this bread always." But then Jesus says, "I am the bread of life." So now they know, "Oh, the bread's him." He said, "The bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." So if the bread is Jesus, then Jesus is saying he came down from heaven. And then, even if they didn't piece all that together, Jesus flat out says, "I have come down from heaven."

So they're grumbling about it because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." And the questions they're asking is, "Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?" So it's understandable why the Jews are grumbling here. They thought they knew who he was. They thought he was the son of Joseph and Mary from over there. But now he's saying, "I have come from up there." And they're asking, "How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

And in response to this grumbling, Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves." So they were grumbling. We're told why they're grumbling. And Jesus says, "Don't do that." Then Jesus says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him."

So no one can come to Jesus unless God draws them. Later on in this chapter, Jesus will say something very similar to this. He'll say, "No one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." So according to these two teachings, no one can come to Jesus unless this happens. And unless this happens, which means if someone is coming to Jesus, then what we definitely know for sure is that God has granted this to them, and they have been drawn by God. Because again, you cannot come to Jesus unless God does these two things.

Now, note here that the Bible never says that you have to come to Jesus if God does these two things. What is being taught here is that you cannot come to Jesus unless these two things happen. So we know the crowd here was coming to Jesus, at least in some sense. The Bible never tells us if they're coming to Jesus in this sense. But if they are, then what we know for sure is that the crowd was granted this by God, and they were drawn by God.

So Jesus is teaching, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise them up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me." So everyone who does this and this, both of these things, if you hear from the Father and learn from the Father, then you're going to come to Jesus.

"Not that anyone has seen the Father except He who is from God. He has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life."

So Jesus returns to what he was talking about before. Remember he said, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent." Now, "Him whom He has sent" - that's Jesus. So this is the work of God, that you believe in Jesus. And after Jesus says that, he gives his teaching about the bread of God. He says, "The bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." He tells them, "I am the bread of life."

So believe in Him whom He has sent. Here's something to believe in: believe that the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Believe that Jesus is the bread of life. Of course, Jesus knows they don't believe. He tells them they've seen him, but they don't believe him. And he tells them why it's important that they need to both look and believe. And he also goes into more detail about coming to him. And then he's back to what he was saying before.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life."

So for both of these sides, if we're going to believe in Jesus, like fully believe in Jesus, believe in everything Jesus is, believe in everything that Jesus teaches, if someone from either of these sides wants to believe in Jesus about everything, like the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then here's something that they have to believe. They have to believe that Jesus is the bread of life. Jesus says, "Whoever believes has eternal life," and then he tells them something to believe in: "I am the bread of life." So if you believe Jesus, you're going to believe he's the bread of life.

Now, checking in with both of these sides here, both of them agree that Jesus is the bread of life. And both of them also agree that there can be figurative and symbolic meanings tied to that claim. For instance, there's the obvious parallel, which Jesus even talks about, and that is that Jesus came down from heaven and the manna came down from heaven. So again, both sides agree that Jesus is the bread of life. And both sides agree that that title can have figurative and symbolic meanings. So both side A and side B have a lot in common right here.

But this is where things get interesting. Remember how Jesus told the people to work for a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give? Well, so far in Jesus's teaching up to verse 48, Jesus has not told the people what to do with this food once they get it. He told them he will give it to them. He started talking about a bread. They said, "Sir, give us this bread always." He explained that he is the bread. But so far, up to verse 48, Jesus has not said what to do with that bread.

Now, if someone says they're going to give you food, then yeah, you might assume, "I got to eat it." But eating this food and eating this bread has not yet come up. Eating the manna was disgusting, not hungering, was disgusting. But so far in this teaching from John's gospel, while Jesus has explained that he is the bread of life, he has not yet said to eat the bread of life. But he's about to.

Because after Jesus tells them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life," he says, "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So let's go back to Exodus real quick. Remember when the manna showed up? They didn't know what it was. They said, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat." So the bread showed up for them to eat, and they didn't know. They were looking directly at the bread. They saw the bread. They were asking, "What is it?" But they didn't know what it was.

And just like Moses is telling them, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat," Jesus is telling these people, "I am the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. I came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, which again is me, he will live forever." Jesus said, "The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." And that's when the Jews disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink."

There's that word "for" again. So this is an explanation of why Jesus just said the other thing: "Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and will be raised up on the last day." For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. So why is it that whoever feeds on Jesus's flesh and drinks his blood has eternal life and will be raised up on the last day? Because Jesus's flesh is true food, and Jesus's blood is true drink.

Jesus goes on, "Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

Jesus said these things in the synagogue as he taught at Capernaum. When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?"

So Jesus knows they're grumbling about this. And he says to them, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if this happened?" And what Jesus is referring to here is something that's going to happen here on the timeline. So Jesus is talking about this future event when the Son of Man ascends to where he was before. So he's asking them, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if this happens? What if this miraculous thing happens?" And Jesus says this, knowing that it's going to happen in the future.

And then Jesus tells them, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all."

So Jesus is talking about two categories here: the Spirit and the flesh. We have a video that goes into much more detail on the Spirit and the flesh. These are two categories that are discussed a lot in the Bible. For instance, Paul told the Corinthians, "I could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not being merely human?"

So Paul could not address them as spiritual people because they were of the flesh. They were behaving only in a human way. They were being merely human.

So back in John 6, Jesus taught at Capernaum. When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" To which Jesus said, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all."

So their human ways, their being merely human, that's not going to help them here. What they need is the Spirit.

Now, the reason we did that short little section on how the Bible uses the categories of the Spirit and the flesh is because a lot of people on Side B will try to convince you that the Spirit means spiritual things that are not literal or physical, and the flesh means literal and physical things. Those clearly aren't the words written here. This says the Spirit and the flesh. These are two categories, which you can read about in various places in the Bible.

Even just three chapters before this, Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him." Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Now, we have a Bible Me episode on "Born Again" as well. So if you want to check that out, we have the link in the description, plus it's up there in the card. But notice here that Jesus talks about people being born of the Spirit. So physical human beings can be born of the Spirit. Jesus says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." At no point in the Bible are we ever told that Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is literal and physical, and that which is born of the Spirit is spiritual and not literal or physical. But a bunch of people on Side B seem to think that's what those words mean.

Jesus brought clarity to what he was saying, which is found in verse 63. Look in your Bible, please, with me, as we read verse 63 together. This is Jesus clarifying what he meant and why he was telling these things in metaphoric language. He says, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. And the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life."

In other words, Jesus is saying that the true meaning behind the metaphoric language and the figurative language is that it pertains to a spiritual dynamic, not a physical one. It is not physical.

So that was Paul. I don't know how to pronounce your last name, but I'll try to say it anyway, Liber, from Calvary Chapel Ontario. And somehow he read about the Spirit and the Flesh and he got the metaphorical and the physical. So that's completely different from what the text actually says. And I don't know if people on Side B don't know what the word "spiritual" means. But a lot of people on CB put an emphasis on the word "spiritual." It pertains to a spiritual dynamic. I'm speaking spiritually about these life-giving truths. I'm talking about spiritual things. The words I've spoken to you are spiritual words, our spiritual truth. Think about them from a spiritual perspective. The words that he speaks are spirit and they are life. He's talking about spiritual truths. As if that word somehow proves their point. I think that a lot of people on SBE think the word "spiritual" means "not physical."

Here's verse 63. After he said everything, "it helps you and I know that this isn't literal. The words I've spoken to you are spiritual words. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life." Why, Jesus, should I take your words as being spiritual and not just purely physical? Hear the contrast between Spirit and flesh. "It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing." So don't switch the ordained and defined meaning. I'm talking about spiritual things. Don't destroy that distinction. There is a distinction being drawn between physical things which perish and spiritual things. He's speaking in spiritual terms, not literal terms. Pertains to a spiritual dynamic, not a physical one. It is not physical.

Spiritual does not mean not physical. You can even go to a dictionary. It's not going to tell you that spiritual things can never be physical things. Spiritual can mean: of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit. It can be: of, or relating to sacred matters. It can be: concerned with religious values. It can be: related or joined in spirit. It can be: other, relating to supernatural beings or phenomena. There is nothing that prevents a spiritual thing from also being a physical thing. So unlike what these guys on Side B are saying, spiritual things can be literal, physical things. Like the category of things that are physical and the category of things that are spiritual can overlap. You can have a spiritual thing that is also physical. For starters, there's Jesus. Jesus is spiritual and Jesus is physical. Also, Jesus brought up his Ascension. That's a spiritual event, but it's also a physical event. Jesus's physical body is going to be literally ascending into heaven. So I don't know who it was on Side B who started this rumor, but this is not what those words mean. Not in the Bible, not in the dictionary, not in reality.

At some point, someone on Side B came up with this stupid theory, and for some reason, so many people on Side B bought it. Which is why we say, "Don't trust us, test us." Like before you repeat a teaching that you hear somebody say, make sure it's an actual teaching, make sure it's true. Don't trust, test. Because somehow this got out there, and a bunch of people on Side B clung to it.

Let's go to another guy on Side B. This is Skip Heitzig from Calvary Albuquerque. "If you were raised Roman Catholic, that's what you were taught. You are actually eating the body and blood. Now, that is not what Jesus means here. How do I know that? Context. Jesus, in the context of this teaching, plainly says when he speaks about his body and blood that he's speaking in spiritual terms, not literal terms. That's what he says. Go to verse, um, 63. 'It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.' I'm speaking spiritually about these life-giving truths." He is speaking metaphorically. It's figurative. He even says so.

So I'm looking at verse 63. That's not what he says. So these guys are on Side B, and they're trying to change the Spirit to be not literal or physical things, and the flesh to be literal and physical things. That makes no sense. Now, don't get me wrong, things of the flesh can be physical and literal, but they don't have to be. As Paul writes to the Galatians, "The works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

So these guys on Side B here think that the flesh means physical and literal things. But can you touch jealousy? Is jealousy a physical thing? Is patience a physical thing? Like, "Here you go, have some patience. Have some love with that, too. I'm going to get you a plate. We're going to get you some jealousy, some strife. Do you like peace? You got to try some peace. Here's a piece of peace." You get the point. Things of the flesh and things of the Spirit don't have to be physical. That being said, both spiritual things and things of the flesh can be physical. Paul told his brothers, "I could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh." He tells him, "You are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?" So Paul is talking to his brothers here. His brothers are people, like literal physical people. That's who he's writing to. And Paul lets it be known that you could be a spiritual person or a person of the flesh. In both cases, you're dealing with a person, a literal physical person. And that literal physical person can either be spiritual or of the flesh.

So SBE's edited version of verse 63 falls apart when you actually read the Bible. This is Honor Damante. He's also on Side B, obviously. "Jesus is speaking in the figurative sense. He's not saying that he himself is a literal piece of bread that is to be eaten in order to obtain eternal life. He is speaking figuratively. And John chapter 6 is a perfect example of people misunderstanding the words of Christ because they interpret them literally and physically. Understanding the word of God requires us to rightly divide the word of truth. Jesus said, 'It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.' Think about that. The Spirit quickens; the flesh profits nothing. So am I to interpret Jesus's words in the physical, literal, fleshly sense?"

So just like the other guys, Honor is trying to make the flesh mean literal and physical. So am I to interpret Jesus's words in the physical, literal, fleshly sense? He's just grouping together all those different words: physical, literal, and fleshly. In the physical, literal, fleshly sense. Those are three different categories, two of which aren't mentioned in the passage. The passage talks about the flesh. It doesn't say the literal. It doesn't say the physical, because those are different things. So Mr. Damante is doing the same thing that the other guys are doing. He's trying to make the flesh mean physical and literal things.

If we go to Galatians, Paul says, "Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load. Let the one who has taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith."

So yeah, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. The one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption." Anyway, Jesus says, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 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."

But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it would be who would betray him. And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God." Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil." He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

So congratulations, you just read all of John chapter 6. You read about what Jesus taught here at Capernaum. And remember, at the beginning of that teaching, Jesus spoke about a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. I had suggested that you be on the lookout for that food. What is this food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give? Did anyone who was reading along happen to find a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give? Because I did. Jesus said, "My flesh is true food." So we were looking for a food. Jesus's flesh is true food. So we've got a food. How about this enduring to eternal life thing? Jesus said, "I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die." Now, Jesus is the bread that comes down from heaven. So another way of saying this is that one may eat of Jesus and not die. Jesus said, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, this bread being the living bread that came down from heaven, which is Jesus, if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever." Jesus even says, "Then the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." And he tells him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

So now we have Jesus referring to his flesh as food. And also Jesus talks about how his flesh endures to eternal life. Whoever feeds on his flesh and drinks his blood has eternal life. Now, what about this third thing? Back at the beginning of Jesus's teaching in Capernaum, he was said to work for this food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. So whatever this food is that endures to eternal life, the Son of Man will give that food.

Now, as that conversation continued, Jesus started talking about bread, a specific kind of bread, the true bread from heaven, the bread of God, which is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. And the people were like, "Sir, give us this bread always." So he says he will give them a food. He starts talking about this bread. And then the people say, "Give us that. We'll take an order over here. Give us that bread always." So Jesus says he will give it. And then they're saying, "Give it to us." And Jesus explains, "I am the bread of life." He also tells them, "You have seen me, yet do not believe," and he lets them know, "Whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life." And then he tells them, "The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

So Jesus said he will give this food which endures to eternal life. And then he says, "I will give this food which endures to eternal life," and that food is his flesh. To which the Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So according to the words that the Bible records Jesus as having said, Jesus's flesh is a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. Now, if you're watching this and you're on Side B, there's a good chance you haven't seen this.

Before, like until today, you might never have known that Jesus started his teaching by saying this, and then went on to reveal this. And if you're one of those people, please let us know in the comments. Like, if this is news to you, let us know now.

Why might it be that people on SBE don't know about this? Well, there's actually several reasons, but let's go over a few that I think will be the most popular.

Possible reason number one: Your pastor is trying to change the start of Jesus's teaching in Capernaum. So when you read this full teaching that Jesus delivered at Capernaum, and you see that the first thing he told them to do was to work for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give, then it becomes really easy to realize that as Jesus is talking here, he's explaining that his flesh is a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give. Even the Jews are saying, "Give us a food." And then when Jesus says he will give them his flesh, they say, "How could this man give us his flesh to eat?" So all of this information is very easy to see if you read the teaching from beginning to end.

But let's go to a pastor on Side B. This is Mike Winger. Now, you might be familiar with John 6. This is the passage where Jesus says, "If you don't eat my flesh and drink my blood, you know you will not, you will not see the kingdom," and all this. And he says it seriously, really, like, "Whoa, he seems really intense." But I want us to know is this: the bookmarks, the beginning of the passage and the end of the passage, make you got to read the whole thing in context, right? The beginning and end help us to see that he is not mean. I'm literally going to make you eat my flesh and blood. All right.

So that was Mike Winger, he's a pastor on Side B. And as we just heard, Mike thinks that reading the passage from beginning to end, reading it in context, will help you to see that Side A is wrong. But we just read this passage in context from beginning to end, and we saw that Side A can have an interpretation of that passage that fits perfectly with what they're saying. So why is Mike Winger saying if you read the passage from beginning to end, it helps you see that SA is wrong? Well, listen to where Mike says the beginning of the discussion is. "You got to read the whole thing in context, right? The beginning and end help us to see that he is not mean. I'm literally going to make you eat my flesh and blood."

So in John 6:35, beginning the discussion, he says this: "And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.'" Okay, so that's not the beginning of the discussion. The discussion started in verse 25. They asked Jesus the question, and then Jesus started talking to them. He tells them why they're seeking him, and then he tells them, "Don't work for this, but work for this." So why is Mike Winger telling his audience that the discussion started at verse 35 when it actually started a whole paragraph before that?

Let's go to John MacArthur. "I want to read this great sermon. It's one great sermon starting in verse 32 of John 6." That's not where the sermon starts. He got closer than Mike Winger did, but still not the start of the sermon. Jesus started talking at verse 26. "Look for the phrase 'came down out of heaven.' You will find it, for example, in verse 32." At the very beginning of the message, that is not the very beginning of the message. Mr. MacArthur, if you're looking for the first thing Jesus said in Capernaum, it was verse 26. Even in the title of his video, John MacArthur is cutting out verse 27.

Let's go to James White, also on Side B. "Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'" And so where have they gone wrong? Because you see, if you're going to argue, really going to say they got it right? He is really talking about eating physical food. No, they've already missed it. They've already missed the plain contrast that he's given. They've missed going all the way back to verse 35, where the parameters are laid out. The first place, and any fair analysis of any written document, if you're going to follow the argument from beginning to end, right here, Jesus establishes the parameters of what he's talking about.

Okay, so Mr. White is also at verse 35, and he's saying, "If you're going to follow the argument from beginning to end, right here, Jesus establishes the parameters of what he's talking about." They've missed going all the way back to verse 35. Remember back to verse 35, all the way back in verse 35. And how do you start off this entire discourse? Verse 35. Any fair analysis of any written document, if you're going to follow the argument from beginning to end, right here, Jesus establishes the parameters of what he's talking about.

Now, in verse 35, Jesus does establish some parameters. We looked at those already, we noted them. But Mr. White, if we're really going to follow the argument from beginning to end, then how about we actually go to the beginning and keep in mind the parameters that Jesus established here as well? So yeah, that is possible reason number one as to why people on Side B might not have noticed this before. Your pastor may be trying to change the start of Jesus's teaching in Capernaum. And why are they trying to change the start of this teaching? Well, that's a topic that we'll look way more into as this series continues.

Basically, a lot of people on Side B will say that "eat my flesh" is just a metaphor for "believe." What does it mean to eat of the living bread? It means to believe. And how do you start off this entire discourse? Verse 35. You're not believing. You're not believing. He's explaining the unbelief of these individuals. That's what eating the flesh of the Son of Man is about. It is directly paralleled with believing. That's just one of several theories that Side B has come up with as to what "eat my flesh" could mean if it were a metaphor. But yeah, as we're going to see, they're going to go to a lot of these verses that say "believe" and they're going to try to make a link between that "believe" and this "eating." Will it work out for them, or will it blow up in their face? No spoilers. Subscribe and find out.

Now, if anyone watching this video has actually seen Mr. White's video, then you might be thinking, "Well, didn't he read verse 27 in his video?" And yeah, he did. Here's him doing just that. He says, "Do not work for the food which perishes," and he's referring to that food because, as he says, "you ate of the loaves and were filled. But instead, work for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."

So this brings us to possible reason number two as to why you may have missed these connections. Your pastor is obscuring verse 27. So we just heard Mr. White reading the verse. He's got the verse right there in front of him. It's in English and in Greek, so that's great. We can see what the verse says. But listen to what Mr. White says right after he reads the verse: "which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal." And so immediately, there is a distinction being drawn between physical things which perish and spiritual things which only find their origin, their source, where? Well, "which the Son of Man will give to you."

So Mr. White just added the words "physical" and "spiritual" to that verse. What they were seeking after was the filling up of their belly. They're seeking physical food. They did not understand that what Jesus provides is for that person who is spiritually hungry, spiritually thirsty. According to what Jesus said, one of these foods perishes and the other endures to eternal life. He did not say one is physical and the other is spiritual. And again, those two things are not exact opposites. You can have a physical thing that is also spiritual. But Mr. White's on Side B, so obviously he's trying to tell people, "You got to find a spiritual food, not a physical one."

Immediately, there is a distinction being drawn. Yes, Mr. White, there is a distinction being drawn in verse 27, but it's not between physical and spiritual things. So we can get rid of your nonsense and just accept what Jesus said. The distinction is between a food that perishes and a food that endures to eternal life. From what verse 27 says, and from what the rest of John 6 says, it is entirely possible that this food is both physical and spiritual.

Now, James White is not the only person on SB who's obscuring verse 27. Jesus says, "Look, labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you. For him hath God the Father sealed." So we have Jesus saying, "Look, there's a physical food or physical meal, but you should be thinking about the spiritual meal." So according to Robert Breaker, Jesus said all this. But according to the Bible, he didn't.

Let's go to Gary Hamri. "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eat everlasting life." Their passion for Jesus was for something physical, whereas Jesus's passion for them was for something spiritual. I think to myself, "How, how patient Jesus must have been with people who constantly did not understand what he was saying?" Like, he's speaking to them in spiritual terms, but they're thinking purely in natural, physical terms. Jesus is never quoted as saying that the food he would give is not physical. Side B is saying that a lot, but that is clearly not taught in the Bible.

Seriously, everyone on Side B and Side A should open up their Bible right now to John 6. Look at that teaching. Do you see anything in there that says the food that Jesus will give is not physical? No, because that's not taught there. That's taught by Side B. It's not taught in the Bible. Do you see anything in there that says the food Jesus will give is only spiritual? No, because again, that's not taught in the Bible. That's taught by Side B. Most, if not all, of Side B believes that the food Jesus will give is not physical. But there's nothing in the Bible that actually says that. Side B is saying that the Bible is not.

Now, just because something isn't taught in the Bible, that doesn't mean it's wrong. For instance, the canon of the New Testament, the list of books that make up a Christian's New Testament, is not taught in the Bible. And we have videos on this if you want to go into more detail on that. But yeah, I just wanted to clarify that even though what SBE is saying is not taught in the Bible, that does not automatically make them wrong. It just means they can't prove their side from the Bible.

Now, as if attempting to relocate the beginning of the teaching or editing the beginning of the teaching weren't enough, there's also possible reason number three. Pastors on Side B are pointing at the crucifixion. Let's go to Lon Flowers, who's on Side B. "Verse 51: 'I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread also which I give for the life is of the world, is my flesh.'" So if you want to talk about atonement and extent of the atonement, here's a good verse to go to. "I will give life for the world. He's given his life for the world."

So first of all, that's not what Jesus was quoted as saying. Leon is talking about Jesus giving his life. "He's given his life for the world." According to the Bible, Jesus says, "I will give my flesh." So what's going on here? Why is Leon saying this? Is Mr. Flowers trying to edit the Bible? I don't think so. Let's take a look at a few more people from Side B who are also coming to this conclusion that Jesus is saying, "I will give my life," and "the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Now he's talking about giving up his life. "And the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." This is some, this is looking forward to the cross. This is looking forward to the cross. "The bread also which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." And the bread that I will give is my flesh. "My flesh which I will give for the life of the world." He is going to give his flesh for the life of the world. How did he do that? You remember that cat of nine tails? When Jesus Christ was being sent to be crucified, they ripped the flesh off of him. He gave his flesh. With his stripes, the Bible says in the Old Testament, we are healed. He is not giving his flesh as bread to partake and eat literally. He is talking about, "I will give my life, life for the world." He gave up his fleshly life and existence on this earth to save the world. He gave his flesh. He gave his. And we eat that bread to remember what he did for us. He, because he gave his body for us on that tree, and he shed his blood, and and we're just to remember it. We are not saved by actually partaking of a communion.

Okay, so it doesn't seem like they're editing the verse in terms of getting rid of the flesh and turning it into life. So we'll get rid of that. Because what it seems like they're doing is they're taking the "I will give my flesh" and saying that that phrase means "I will give my life." In other words, they think this last sentence in verse 51 is referring to Jesus's death on the cross.

Now, does "I will give my flesh" mean "I will give my life"? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. The Bible never tells us. But just for fun, let's pretend this is true. Both sides in this debate will be fine with that. Because if "I will give my flesh" means "I will give my life," if, like Joshua said, this flesh is referring to the flesh that was whipped off of Jesus, the flesh that was on his body on the cross, if that's the flesh that Jesus is going to give, then that is his literal flesh. And in this same sentence, Jesus is saying that the bread is his flesh. If SBE is correct here, and this is Jesus's flesh that was on the cross, then that is Jesus's literal, physical flesh. And Jesus is saying that the bread is his literal, physical flesh. So plug that into this other part of verse 51, and the statement of "If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever" becomes, "If anyone eats of my literal, physical flesh, he will live forever." Which matches up with what Jesus said next: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is my literal, physical flesh that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on my literal, physical flesh will live forever."

So yeah, Side A would have no problem if this was actually the teaching. Now, again, nothing in the Bible says that "I will give my flesh" means "I will give my life." So while it might mean that, it might not. Now, why might it not mean that? Well, these words here, "I will give my flesh," they're found in John's gospel. This is some, this is looking forward to the cross. This is looking forward to the cross. So let's go forward to the cross. Let's stay in John's gospel and go to the part where John writes about Jesus's death. John writes, "Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said to fulfill the Scripture, 'I thirst.'" A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of sour wine on a branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

So yeah, this is still John's gospel, and he didn't say he gave up his flesh. So if Side B is correct and Jesus giving his flesh is just another way of saying that Jesus will die for people, then they don't get any support for that theory here, because at no point does John say, "And Jesus gave up his flesh." It does say he gave up his spirit. So there's that, but no flesh here.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "Well, John doesn't have to use that phrase here. Just because Jesus used it in Capernaum, that doesn't mean John has to use it when he's writing about Jesus's death." And that's true. John does not have to do that. But John tends to do that. Let's read in Chapter 2: "It says, 'The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting there.' And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, 'Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.' His disciples remembered that it was written, 'Zeal for your house will consume me.'" So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "It has taken 46 years to build this temple, and you will raise it up in three days." But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Let's go to John 12. "The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!' And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written: 'Fear not, Daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt.' His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him."

So we're still in John's gospel here, and in John's gospel, there were things that happened that triggered the disciples to remember earlier things. Jesus reacted to the way in which people were treating his Father's house, and his disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." Jesus rose from the dead, and his disciples remembered that he had said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." When Jesus was glorified, the disciples remembered that certain things had been written about him and had been done to him. So even if the disciples weren't remembering these things in the moment, the author of John's gospel does inform the reader what the connection was that the disciples remembered later on.

So if this last sentence in verse 51 is really just a reference to Jesus's death, then why isn't John telling his readers that when Jesus died, the disciples remembered that he said, "I will give my flesh"? Or even if John didn't write it in John chapter 6, why not John chapter 19? Why not say, "Jesus bowed his head, gave up his spirit, and then his disciples remembered he had said, 'I will give my flesh'"? Now, I'm not saying just because John has done that before, he would have to do that here. But seeing it, Side B has no proof that this is actually what this meant. I feel like it's appropriate to at least point this out and ask the question.

So yeah, John's gospel is no help to Side B in this issue. And neither are Paul's letters. Paul says, "The Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins." "The Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." "Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." "Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all." "Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us." So yeah, in Paul's letters, he talks a lot about Jesus giving up his life, but he never once refers to that as giving his flesh. He says he gave himself. Now, SBE might say, "Wait a second, he says himself. He's giving himself. His flesh is part of himself, so kind of works, right?"

But let's go to Leviticus. This is the Lord speaking here, and the Lord says, "The life of the flesh is in the blood." So if right here in John chapter 6, this last sentence of verse 51, Jesus was trying to communicate to people that he was going to give his life, then wouldn't it make much more sense for him to say, "I will give my blood"? Because according to the Bible, the life of the flesh is in the blood.

Now again, the Bible never tells us that "I will give my flesh" means "I will give my life." So maybe it does mean that, or maybe it doesn't. Here are the facts: verse 51 does not say that Jesus will give his life. Verse 51 does say that Jesus will give his flesh. In verse 27, Jesus said he will give a food that endures to eternal life. In verse 51, Jesus says he will give a food that endures to eternal life, and that food that endures to eternal life is his flesh. This distracts from this. If you're on Side B and your pastor is getting to verse 51 and saying, "Hey, look over there at the cross," then yeah, you might miss this.

So that is a third possible reason as to why people on Side B might not have realized that Jesus said to work for this, and then he went on to describe his flesh in the exact same way as the thing he just told them to work for.

Now, let's, let's go back to Mr. White's video. We have a lot of videos on Mr. White. We have to correct a lot of the things he says and a lot of things his students say now. And you can check those all out. They're linked in the description. But even though we correct them a lot, we don't want you to think that everything he says is wrong, because it's not. In fact, in his video here on John chapter 6, he actually says something that we agree with 100%. This is about exegesis of Jesus. Now, exegesis of Jesus is when you read the Bible or any text and you figure out what that text says, what is the text teaching? That's different from eisegesis, which is when you read the Bible or any text and you try to make the text say whatever you want it to say. You're not so much interested in learning from the text, but more so shoving your own teachings into the text. You know, kind of like this. He's speaking in spiritual terms, not literal terms. This isn't literal. It is not physical. But anyway, Mr. White, one of the fundamental truths of exegesis is, and this is, this is true whether you're reading secular or religious literature, when an author begins to introduce a concept, then you take seriously the definitions that they offer and then you apply them later on.

So let's put this in action. When an author begins to introduce a concept. Okay, so we have Jesus here. He's the author of these words, and he's introducing this concept. So we should take seriously the definitions that the author offers. So here is how Jesus defined what he wants people to work for. And then Mr. White says, "to apply them later on." And that's what we did. That's that's exactly what we did. We applied them later on. So I'm liking this process so far. Mr. White, what's next? "You don't jump into uh any author's discussion three or four pages in and ignore where they have laid out their categories beforehand and then come up with your own categories and think you're actually accurately representing the person that you're reading." I agree with this 100%. You don't jump into any author's discussion three or four pages in. I mean, even three or four verses in, that could cause a problem. We should start at the beginning of the discussion, which would be verse 25. In John 6:35, "beginning the discussion." Like I said, the beginning of the discussion is verse 25. Verse 32, "at the very beginning of the message." Again, the discussion begins in verse 25. And how do you start off this entire discourse? Verse 35. Ah, trick question. He didn't. He started the entire discourse in verse 26.

So yeah, I'm loving this advice from Mr. White. You don't jump into any author's discussion three or four pages in, or even three or four verses in, and ignore where they have laid out their categories beforehand. So these categories right here, we should not ignore these. We should be looking for a food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give, as we learned from what Jesus taught in Capernaum. Jesus's flesh lands in the overlap of all of those categories.

So yeah, just like my boy Jimmy said, you should not ignore where the authors have laid out their categories beforehand. And also, you definitely shouldn't do something as stupid as coming up with your own categories and thinking that you're actually accurately representing the person that you're reading. You don't come up with your own categories and think you're actually accurately representing the person that you're reading.

There is a distinction being drawn between physical things which perish and spiritual things. So yeah, big thank you goes out to Mr. White for supplying us with this accurate information about exegesis of Jesus. Because now we know, even according to your standards, Mr. White, you are not doing exegesis of Jesus. You're doing eisegesis of Jesus. Reading into the text something that would not have suggested itself to the original author or to the original audience to which these words were addressed. Exactly. Mr. White is reading into the text, and a lot of Side B is reading into the text something that would not have suggested itself to the original author or to the original audience to which those words were addressed. Side B is doing a bunch of eisegesis, but no exegesis, because there's nothing in the Bible that actually supports Side B.

Now, that doesn't mean Side B is wrong. It just means the Bible does not teach what Side B is saying. Now, if you're watching this and you think the Bible actually does prove Side B, let us know about that in the comments, or make a video response and tweet that at us. We want to see if you actually have proof that your side is taught in the Bible, because we've seen a lot of arguments from Side B. This is just part one of the video. We're going to have more parts, and we're going to listen to a lot more arguments from these guys. It's all eisegesis. So if you're watching and you think SBE actually has some exegesis, let us know, 'cause we couldn't find it.

Now, we have the links to all of these videos from Side B in our description, and we really do want this to be a fair discussion. We want you to go check them out. We want you to hear what they're saying, and we want you to hear what Side A is saying. We want you to be able to make an informed decision about this debate. One of these two sides is definitely wrong, and this is not an issue where you want to be wrong, because if you don't do this, then you have no life in you. So we want you to examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith, because people can fail that test. But the good news is, if you're wandering from the truth, you can be brought back. And that's the whole goal of our channel. We want both sides to just be one side, agreeing on one thing, being of one mind, having no divisions. That's not how it is, but that that's how it's supposed to be.

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Hey Ferris, I have a question. When Jesus was in Capernaum, he said he will give food, he will give his flesh. So that means at any point after saying that, he can give that food, he can give his flesh, right? Right, because he said he will give, so he's not necessarily giving it right then, but he will give it at some point in the future from that time. So like on this graphic here, any point in that pink would qualify as a time when Jesus could give that food or his flesh. Oh, okay. That's cool. Yeah. Now that we know that, we can be on the lookout for a time when Jesus gave people something, specifically when he gave his disciples something. So if we can find some event in that pink area where Jesus gave something to his disciples, maybe he says, "This is my body, this is my blood," because remember, he talked about eating and drinking his flesh and blood. Oh, and put that on the list too. Eat and drink. If he commanded them to do that with the stuff he was giving them. And also this teaching here, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." That's like an agreement, a pact, a deal, a covenant. Yes, a covenant, exactly. If you happen to see all those things kind of coming together in this pink area here, then that might be something to look into. Oh, I know what that is. That's the Last Supper. And that happened right here on the timeline in the pink. Oh, man. Jesus is the bread, and one of these two sides is toast. Yeah, that's about the gist of it. It's amazing what we can learn from this book.