Eating the Bread of Life

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Aug 20, 2021 · 4m

I read this passage and was struck by how many ways Jesus refers to Himself as the bread of life. Take a minute to read John 6:28-58 and count how many times Jesus refers to Himself as bread or says that He should be eaten. How can Jesus be bread? How can we eat His flesh and drink His blood? It sounds cannibalistic. (Actually, one of the earliest criticisms of Christianity was because of a rumor that Christians were eating human flesh at their gatherings.) To understand Jesus’ teaching, it helps to look at the Old Testament. The temple sacrificial system called for a perfect animal with no…