“Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood,” Christ said to his disciples, “you shall not have life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood shall have life and have it more abundantly.” These men, with simple and direct faith, grasped this truth, and they believed in it. They could not explain it as a theologian might, but they accepted it and lived by it and were willing to make voluntary sacrifices even in a life of almost total deprivation, in order to receive this bread of life.
