[malakhi]

When Jesus says phago (eat) He means, literally, eat.

Are you suggesting that Jesus taught in Koine Greek? That seems unlikely to me, given that the everyday language of Judea at the time was Aramaic.

[constitutiongirl]

No, but the apostle that wrote the book wrote what he said in Koine. If one comes to the book thinking it's paraphrased, then how can one take 'the red letters' literally?