Jesus fed the 5,000 one one day, and the next he taught them the deeper significance of what his feeding them pointed to: Jesus is the true Bread of Life that came down from God to give them real life. Well, now it’s decision time. What will they do with that information? Will they receive it and believe in Jesus?

Jesus emphasised his point through the metaphor of eating & drinking. Some missed his point altogether. In the 1st century, some believed he spoke of cannibalism when he told them to eat his flesh & drink his blood. In later centuries, Catholics taught that unless we eat & drink the bread & wine at communion, we do not have eternal life (6:53). But Jesus meant neither of these. Again, using eating & drinking as a metaphor, Jesus asked us to receive him, or ingest him in order to receive eternal life. And even more, to continue to ingest him in a habitual way to abide more intimately in him. It’s decision time!