John 6:54 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:54

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

BSB

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ASV

He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

KJV

Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

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Commentary

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Irenaeus

AGAINST HERESIES 4.18.5 (202)

Then, again, how can they say that the flesh, which is nourished with the body of the Lord and with His blood, goes to corruption, and does not partake of life? Let them, therefore, either alter their opinion, or cease from offering the things just mentioned. But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion. For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Hath eternal life - This can never be understood of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. 1. Because this was not instituted till a year after; at the last Passover. 2. It cannot be said that those who do not receive that sacrament must perish everlastingly. 3. Nor can it be supposed that all those who do receive it are necessarily and eternally saved.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

Few passages of Scripture have been so painfully twisted and perverted as that which we have now read. The Jews are not the only people who have striven about its meaning. A sense has been put upon it, which it was never intended to bear. Fallen man, in interpreting the Bible, has an unhappy aptitude for turning food into poison. The things that were written for his benefit, he often makes an occasion for falling. Let us first consider carefully, what these verses do NOT mean.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1288: “Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1876)

OUR Lord Jesus did not, in this passage, allude to the Lord's Supper, as some, desiring to maintain their sacramental superstitions, have dared to affirm! I will not dwell upon the argument that there was no Lord's Supper at the time to allude to, though there is certainly some force in it, but I will rather remind you that with such an interpretation this passage would not be true.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They asked how it was possible to eat His flesh. He answers, with great solemnity, "It is indispensable." Yet even here a thoughtful hearer might find something to temper the harshness. He says they must not only "eat His flesh" but "drink His blood," which could not but suggest the idea of His death--implied in the separation of one's flesh from his blood.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	The [one]	G3588 →
τρώγων	trōgōn	eating	G5176 →
μου	mou	of My	G3165 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
σάρκα	sarka	flesh	G4561 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πίνων	pinōn	drinking	G4095 →
μου	mou	of My	G3165 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
αἷμα	haima	blood	G129 →
ἔχει	echei	has	G2192 →
ζωὴν	zōēn	life	G2222 →
αἰώνιον,	aiōnion	eternal,	G166 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	and I myself	G1473 →G2532 →
ἀναστήσω	anastēsō	will raise up	G450 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
τῇ	tēa	in the	G3588 →
ἐσχάτῃ	eschatē	last	G2078 →
ἡμέρᾳ.	hēmera	day.	G2250 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
leads to
- Galatians 5:24
  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15
  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Romans 6:4–6
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
- Colossians 3:3–4
  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Through
John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
leads to
- Colossians 3:2
  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Isaiah 55:2
  Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the…
- 2 Timothy 2:19
  Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”