Your flesh is nothing. You are taking one sentence and igoring everything else that Jesus says here.
What are you so afraid of?
We Catholics take Jesus literally. Protestants don’t yet they say they believe in the Bible.
But really you believe in only part of it.
You do? Do you have literal rivers of water flowing from your belly? Do you ever get hungry or thirsty? Have you gauged any eyes out? How about cut hands off? Do you believe John literally ate the scroll as he was told to? Do you think Jesus was literally bread?
Jesus said His words were spirit. Jesus would have been sinning against the command to not eat blood. Do you serve a Jesus that sinned?
Matthew 23: 8-10 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.