As EG pointed out, Peter understood. Just a shame so many people here don't.
John 6:35 "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
Answer me this, sunshine, if Christ meant literally, why do you catholics keep going back to gnaw on His flesh even more? He clearly states that you will never hunger, yet somehow you people aren't sated. You have to keep going back and eating Him over and over. I have His word and I am sated. It is all I need and I crave nothing more. Which one of us is closer to scriptural truth?
not to mention everything else he promised
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and
the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me,
that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
47 Most assuredly, I say to you,
he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the
bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood
has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead.
He who eats this bread will live forever.”
The catholic mass offers non of these promises to ANYONE who eats it.