John 6:47-57 (NIV) CONTEXT: We began this passage yesterday. life. 48  I am the bread of life. 49  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 52  Then the Jews began to argue 53  Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink I will raise them up at the last day. 55  For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 

Isaiah 53 focuses on his suffering and death. our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed (v4-5)

main schools of thought as to the relationship of Jesus' body and blood and the communion elements: Roman

ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Acts 5

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 59 Q. by the Holy Spirit; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Romans

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 57 Q. ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Romans 10

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me. 4 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ 5  gospels— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the fourteen letters of Paul— to the Romans

The Roman Empire referred to them as a triumphus - a parade in which a victorious general would triumphantly

Isaiah 57:15–19 (NIV) 15  For this is what the high and exalted One says — he who lives forever, whose