Episode 264: Eat my flesh and drink my blood

John 6-8

Eat my flesh and drink my blood (or you won't have life in you)

6 ^22-24 The next day, people came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

²⁵ When they found him, he said to them,

²⁶ You're looking for me not because you saw the miracles, but because of the bread.

²⁷ Don't work for meat that spoils, but for meat that lasts forever, which the Son of man will give you.

³² The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

³⁵ I'm the bread of life. Those who come to me will never be hungry. Those who believe in me will never thirst.

⁴⁰ Those who see the Son and believe in him will live forever, and I'll raise them up on the last day.

⁴¹ The Jews murmured at him, because he said, “I’m the bread that comes down from heaven.”

⁴² They said,

Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph?

Why does he say he's come down from heaven?

⁴³ Jesus said to them,

Don't murmur. I'm the bread of life.

⁵¹ I'm the living bread that comes down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you'll live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world.

⁵² The Jews said, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said,

You must eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, or you won't have life in you.

⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will live forever.

⁵⁵ Because my flesh and blood are food and drink.

⁵⁶ Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me and I in them.

⁵⁷ Those who eat me, live by me.

⁶⁰ When the disciples heard this, they said, “This is a hard saying. Who can believe it?”

⁶⁶ From that time on, many disciples left Jesus.

⁶⁷ Jesus said to the twelve, “Will you leave me too?”

⁶⁸ Peter said, “Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

⁷⁰ Jesus said, “Haven't I chosen you? And yet one of you is a devil.”

⁷¹ He was talking about Judas Iscariot who would betray him.

Jesus's brothers don't believe in him

7 ¹ After these things, Jesus avoided the Jews because they wanted to kill him.

² The feast of tabernacles was approaching, and his brothers said to him,

³ Go to Judea, so your disciples can see what you're doing.

⁴ Show yourself to the world.

⁵ (His brothers didn't believe in him.)

⁶ Jesus said,

My time hasn't come yet.

⁷ The world hates me, because I say its works are evil.

⁸ But you should go to the feast.

⁹ I won't be going, though, for my time hasn't come.

The people said to Jesus: You have a devil

¹⁰ But when his brothers were gone, Jesus went to the feast in secret.

¹¹ The Jews looked for Jesus at the feast but couldn't find him.

^14-15 During the feast, Jesus taught in the temple, and the Jews said, “How does he know how to read, since he is uneducated?”

¹⁹ Jesus said, “Moses gave you the law, but none of you obey it. So why are you trying to kill me?”

²⁰ The people said, “You have a devil. Who's trying to kill you?”

²³ Jesus said, “You circumcise on the sabbath. So why are you angry with me for healing on the sabbath?”

³¹ But many of the people believed in him, and said, "When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than Jesus?"

Living water will flow out of your belly

³² When the Pharisees and chief priests heard what the people were saying about Jesus, they sent officers to arrest him.

³³ Jesus said to them,

I'll be with you for a little while, then I'll go to the one who sent me.

³⁴ You'll look for me but won't find me. Because where I am, you can't come.

³⁷ On the day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out:

If you're thirsty, come to me and drink.

³⁸ If you believe in me, like the scripture says, rivers of living water will flow out of your belly.

The woman caught in adultery

8 ^1-2 Then next morning, Jesus was teaching at the temple, when the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who was accused of adultery.

⁴ They said to him,

Master, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

⁵ The law of Moses commands us to stone her to death.

What do you say we should do?

⁶ Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground, as though he hadn't heard them.

^7-8 Then he stood up and said, "Let whoever is without sin throw the first stone."

⁸ Then Jesus stooped down again and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And all of the woman's accusers left, one by one.

¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said,

Woman, where are your accusers?

Has no one condemned you?

¹¹ The woman said, "No one."

And Jesus said,

Then I don't condemn you either.

Go, and don't sin anymore.

Is he going to kill himself?

¹² Then Jesus said,

I'm the light of the world.

If you follow me, you won't walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

¹³ The Pharisees said, “You are your own witness. Your testimony isn't true.”

¹⁴ Jesus said,

Though I'm my own witness, my testimony is true.

¹⁸ The Father is also a witness for me.

^19-21 They said, "Where is your father?"

Jesus answered,

²¹ You don't know me or my father. I'm going away, and you will look for me.

But you'll die in your sins. Where I'm going, you can't come.

²² The Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself?”’

²³ Jesus said,

You are from below, I'm from above.

²⁴ You are from this world, I'm not from this world.

If you don't believe that I am he, you'll die in your sins.

³⁰ And as he said these words, many people believed in him.

The truth will set you free

^31-32 Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him,

If you do what I say, you are my disciples. You'll know the truth.

And the truth will set you free.

Your father is the devil

⁴² Jesus said,

If God was your father, you'd love me, because he sent me.

⁴⁴ But your father is the devil.

Jesus claims to be God (and the Jews try to stone him for it)

⁴⁸ The Jews said, “You're a Samaritan and you have a devil.”

⁴⁹ Jesus said,

I don't have a devil.

If you do what I say, you'll never die.

⁵² The Jews said,

Now we know you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets.

⁵³ Are you greater than Abraham?

^54-56 Jesus said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

⁵⁷ The Jews said, “You're less than fifty years old, and yet you've seen Abraham?”

⁵⁸ Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am.”

⁵⁹ When they heard Jesus say this, they began to gather stones to stone him to death.

But Jesus hid and left the temple.