John 6:52 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

They will still understand spiritual things in a carnal sense; yet it is hard to conceive how they could imagine that Christ spake of giving them his flesh to eat, as men eat the flesh of oxen or sheep; but which way soever they did understand it indeed, their captious temper inclined them to conceal any other sense they had of it, and to represent what our Saviour said as exceedingly absurd.

John 6:52

52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?