Latest / A Strange and Beautiful Kingdom
Eat my Flesh and Drink my Blood
Episode 4 Study Guide
Jesus said to eat his flesh and drink his blood. What did that actually mean before anyone called it communion?
A close look at John 6's hardest saying, read without the later Eucharistic gloss — set against the wilderness feeding of the 5,000, Israel's own wilderness grumbling in Exodus 17, and the Torah's insistence that blood is life. Why would Jesus say something this shocking, and why did it cause his own followers to walk away?
In this episode:
John 6:25–58, the Bread of Life discourse, in its Second Temple Jewish context
Exodus 17 and Massah and Meribah — Israel…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.