simply be another way of saying, albeit in a strange way, that we have to believe in him. But from verse 53 to 54 and onward, in answer to the confusion expressed by the Jews at his words, Jesus does something very odd (if Protestantism is true, and the Eucharist is figurative): He makes the eating of his flesh even more graphic by using a different word102 for eating, rendered as the Greek trogo, denoting an animal-like gnawing. In the subsequent verses, he doubles down on this more primal way of eating by continuing to use trogo: He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and
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