Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
6:54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. — Jesus says in 6:40 that “This is the will of him who sent me: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day,” and in 6:54 makes the same promise to “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood.” Therefore, we have to conclude that eating his flesh and drinking his blood is equivalent to coming to and believing in Christ, that is, accepting and obeying the gospel. Everyone knows the importance of bread (physical food) for the body; we also have to understand that the spiritual bread (Christ) is indispensable for the spirit or soul.
Source: Commentary on the New Testament by Partain
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood. Joh 6:27, Joh 6:40, Joh 6:63; Joh 4:14; Salt 22:26; Pro 9:4-6; Isaiah 25:6-8; Isaiah 55:1-3; Gal 2:20; Phil 3:7-10.
has eternal life. Joh 6:39, Joh 6:40, Joh 6:47.
Source: The Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
eat my flesh and drink my blood it is not a reference to the Lord’s Supper which he instituted a year later. On the one hand, Christ made it very clear in this context that eternal life is gained by believing (vv. Joh 6:29, Joh 6:35, Joh 6:40, Joh 6:47). Those verses teach us that each person should appropriate the benefits of Christ’s death. Christ made it explicit that such appropriation is by faith.
Source: New Illustrated Caribbean Bible Commentary
THE ONE WHO EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD. One receives spiritual life by believing in Christ and sharing in the redemptive benefits of his death on the cross (Romans 3:24-25; 1Jn 1:7). That spiritual life is nourished by abiding in Christ and in his Word. Compare v. Joh 6:53 with v Joh 6:63, where He says: “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.” So we partake of Christ by having faith in Him and prayerfully receiving His Word.
(1) Jesus is the living Word (Joh 1:1-5). The Bible is the written Word (2Ti 3:16; 2Pe 1:21). Jesus declares that it is “the bread of life” (v. Joh 6:35), and in another place he relates that bread to the Word of God by stating that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matt 4:4). Therefore, one eats the body of Christ by abiding in Him and by receiving and obeying the Word of God (v. Joh 6:63).
(2) One is saved by the grace of God and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit upon hearing and receiving the Word for the first time (Joh 1:12; Ac 2:41). To continue to be saved and receive grace, one must remain in union with Christ and continually partake of God’s Word by reading it, obeying it, and assimilating his words into one’s heart (1Ti 4:13-16; Jas 1:21). The abandonment of communion with Christ or of his Word is fatal.
Source: Full Life Study Bible
6:54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. — Jesus says in 6:40 that “This is the will of him who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day”, and in 6:54 he makes the same promise to “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood”. Therefore, we have to conclude that eating his flesh and drinking his blood is equivalent to coming to and believing in Christ, that is, accepting and obeying the gospel.
Everyone knows the importance of bread (physical food) for the body; we also have to understand that the spiritual bread (Christ) is indispensable for the spirit or soul.
Source: Reeves-Partain Notes
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.. Actually the phrase literally says “chew” (different from “eat” in the previous verses, with the sense of cracking, breaking with the teeth), with which Jesus scandalizes his listeners even more. Many commentators see in the realism of this verb another reference to the Lord’s Supper, while others make no distinction in meaning between the two verbs. This verb also appears in vv. Joh 6:54, Joh 6:56, Joh 6:57, Joh 6:58; Joh 13:18 Y Matt 24:38. The fact that indefinite, as already seen in vv. Joh 6:35, Joh 6:37, Joh 6:40 Y Joh 6:44, can be inclusively translated as: “Everyone who chews my meat.” The TEV uses the plural indefinite pronoun “those who”.
Source: Commentary for Exegesis and Translation
CROSS-REFERENCES
e 349 Joh 6:40; 1Co 15:52; 1Thess 4:16
Source: New World Translation
54 super (1) lit, chews; so also in vs.56,57,58.
54 super (2) Here flesh and blood are mentioned separately. The separation of blood and flesh indicates death. Here the Lord Jesus clearly implied that he would die, that is, that he would be slain. He gave his body and shed his blood for us so that we might have eternal life. To eat his flesh is to receive by faith all that He did in giving his body for us; and to drink his blood is to receive by faith all that he accomplished by shedding his blood for us. To eat his flesh and drink his blood is to receive him, in his redemption, as life and life supply by believing in what he did for us on the cross. Comparing this verse with v.47, we see that eating the Lord’s flesh and drinking his blood is believing in Him, because believing is receiving (1:12).
Source: New Testament Commentary Recovery Version
has eternal life. Ie, he already has it and, therefore, he can be considered resurrected.
Source: Ryrie Annotated Study Bible
The one who chews… It must be distinguished trogon= chewing (vv. Joh 6:54; Joh 6:56-57 Y Joh 6:58) from fago= to eat (v. Joh 6:53).
Source: Textual Bible IV Edition
must be distinguished trogon = chew (verses 54, 56, 57) from phageu238?n = eat, (before v. 54).