Six times he tells us to eat his body and drink his blood. He uses the Greek word meaning for an animal to gnaw, R.I.P. with his teeth. Many of his disciples leave him. Compared to the hyperbole in other verses/parables, this is about Him and not others. I could go on but a true intimate and physical relationship with Jesus calls me to the Eucharist several times a week. This is not a parable. It is repeated by St. Paul.
Why didn't the Jews immediately seize Him and begin to gnaw/RIP Him with their teeth?
Why at the Cross did the disciples not rush to catch the blood and drink it? Or rip the flesh and begin to consume it?
What Paul recorded?
23For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 NASB
Roman Catholicism would have us believe He ate and drank His own flesh and blood.
It appears that some people do not understand the word — transubstantiation —
trans = transfer
substantiation — substance
The substance of bread and wine are changed through Christ’s words to his Body and Blood on John 6. (And also changed by the priest’s words that repeat those of Christ’s in each and every Mass.)
Every word in John is there for a reason; he was writing theology after all the synoptic Gospels.
>>Six times he tells us to eat his body and drink his blood.
And where exactly does He assign the dominion of distributing that to those who’ve assumed it?