John
6:56-69
Did
you notice we’ve had about 6 weeks in a row of Gospel readings about bread? Maybe
not if you’ve been on vacation a bit this summer, but thematically you haven’t
missed much in John’s gospel. This long passage is called the Bread of Life
discourse.
It
starts out with feeding of 5,000. Now there’s a story about bread. And the people
loved it, after Jesus fed them they followed him around, huge crowds were trailing
after him, hoping in no small part for more free food, because they were hungry
and poor.
Today
he tells them, you’re not quite getting it. It’s not just about free food, and
not even just about feeding the hungry. It’s about me, Jesus, I’m the bread of
life, you have to eat and drink me.
