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One of the visiting Pharisees, mounting a lamp-stand, shouted out this question:  

One of the visiting Pharisees, mounting a lamp-stand, shouted out this question:  

*"You tell us that you are the bread of life. How can you give us your flesh to eat or your blood to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out?"

*"You tell us that you are the '''bread of life'''. How can you give us your flesh to eat or your blood to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out?"

And Jesus answered:   

And Jesus answered:   

*"I did not teach you that my flesh is the bread of life or that my blood is the water thereof. But I did say that my life in the flesh is a bestowal of the bread of heaven. The fact of the Word of God bestowed in the flesh and the phenomenon of the Son of Man subject to the will of God, constitute a reality of experience that is equivalent to the divine sustenance. You cannot eat my flesh nor can you drink my blood, but you can become one in spirit with me even as I am one in spirit with the Father. You can be nourished by the eternal word of God, which is indeed the bread of life, and which has been bestowed in the likeness of mortal flesh, you can be watered in soul by the divine spirit, which is truly the water of life. The Father has sent me into the world to show how he desires to indwell and direct all men. I have so lived this life in the flesh as to inspire all men likewise ever to seek to know and do the will of the indwelling heavenly Father."

*"I did not teach you that my flesh is the '''bread of life''' or that my blood is the '''water thereof'''. But I did say that my life in the flesh is a bestowal of the bread of heaven. The fact of the Word of God bestowed in the flesh and the phenomenon of the Son of Man subject to the will of God, constitute a reality of experience that is equivalent to the '''divine sustenance'''. You cannot eat my flesh nor can you drink my blood, but you can become '''one in spirit with me''' even as I am '''one in spirit with the Father'''. You can be '''nourished by the eternal word of God''', which is indeed the '''bread of life''', and which has been bestowed in the likeness of mortal flesh, you can be '''watered in soul''' by the '''divine spirit''', which is truly the '''water of life'''. The Father has sent me into the world to show how he desires to '''indwell''' and '''direct''' all men. I have so lived this life in the flesh as to '''inspire''' all men likewise ever to seek '''to know and do the will of the indwelling heavenly Father'''."

Then one of the Jerusalem spies who had been observing Jesus and his apostles, said:

Then one of the Jerusalem spies who had been observing Jesus and his apostles, said: