Today, I am reading and commenting on  John 6-7.

Today’s passage contains some things said by Jesus which seem to support the Roman Catholic Church’s stance that the bread and wine in the Lord’s Supper literally becomes flesh and blood.  When you combine what Jesus said when He broke bread and shared the cup with His disciples at the Last Supper with what He says here, one could easily draw that conclusion.  Here He says, “ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.”  However, I think we can better understand what He means here about His flesh and blood being food by looking what He said to His disciples when they returned and brought Him food after He spoke with the woman at the well.  In John 4:34, He said, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”  So, my understanding of what Jesus said here is that we eat His flesh and blood as real food, food and drink which will satisfy our spiritual hunger and thirst, when we do the will of Him who called, and then sent, us.  I mentioned that when we do the will of Him who called us we eat Christ’s flesh and drink His blood and that it will satisfy our spiritual hunger.  Yet it is worth noting that when Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, doing the will of His Father satisfied His physical hunger.  

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.