Sermons on the Gospel Readings
Sometimes people have difficulty understanding Jesus, or say they do. Today's text deals with this issue. Jesus tells his audience that he is the Bread of Life. And they counter with, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" We could excuse their resistance to Jesus if we thought that they were incapable of understanding more than the literal meaning of words. But this is not the point of this passage from John. The crowd appears to deliberately pretend Jesus is speaking nonsense.
