:"''...consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more...''" Psalm 59:13a; "''...I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.''" Isaiah 49:26a; "''That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood.''" Jeremiah 46:10a. <br>The words of Jesus promise that those who eat his flesh and drink his blood have eternal life, and warned those listening to him that if they do not eat his flesh and drink his blood they do not have life.
:Those who eat the flesh and drink the blood of the sinless Jesus in worship of God are not those who are punishing him (''eating him up as if they are eating bread, and getting drunk on his blood by beating him to a bloody pulp'') in reprisal for any evil he has ever inflicted on mankind. He testified to the Father that those who crucified him knew not what they were doing, and asked him to forgive them. St. Paul stated that if the rulers of the world knew the secret and hidden wisdom of God, they would not have crucified him (1 Corinthians 2:8). But they did this out of envy and hatred for him (Matthew 27:17-18). John wrote that the Jews persecuted Jesus all the more because he called God his Father (John 5:16-18). None of these loved him.
:*[https://stpaulslowry.org/2018/08/20/the-weird-beauty-of-flesh-and-blood/ The Weird Beauty of "Flesh and Blood", Pastor Joe Skogmo, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Lowry, MN - John 6:51-58 (stpaulslowry.org)]
:Simply on the basis of the biblical text alone, the interpretation that Jesus was using a metaphor is not supported by the clearly plain and evident pattern of metaphor as used in all the rest of the Bible, a metaphor signifying '''''oppressive violence and cruelty''''' and the effect of the divine wrath of retribution inflicted on evil persecutors. If the strictly literal physical term ''trogon'' in the context of John 6:26-59—''in violation of Greek grammar and vocabulary''—of necessity allowed ''only'' a metaphorical interpretation (it doesn't) then Jesus would be saying that only those who hatefully persecute him have eternal life (John 6:53-57), “Most certainly I tell you, unless you viciously persecute the Son of Man, you do not have life in yourselves. He who viciously persecutes me has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is indeed food, and my blood is indeed drink. He who viciously persecutes Me lives in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who viciously persecutes me, he will also live because of me.” (Compare Matthew 25:41-46; Romans 2:5-11; Wisdom 2:12-24.)