I do not think anyone was ‘offended’. The matter seems to be the inability to take what is clearly written and moving forward with it without dancing around it.
I am sorry for obviously offending you. I know how important this doctrine is to Catholics; but I honestly do not see your point here. The text actually does not say “the disciples understood Jesus to be using ‘His flesh’ literally, and this is why they walked away.”
You jumble quotes as though anything you want to put will somehow magically say what you want - you do realize that Isaiah and Jesus are not the same person?
I have told you about your errors in John 6 and you keep on repeating them. From the type of errors you are making, it is obvious to me you have not read the section in question so I have provided a copy below. Please note; Christ repeats the idea that He is Food 19 times. The Jews walked away because they refused to believe Christ could givem them His Flesh to eat (John 6:52 - they understood what Christ said and said NO to Christ). I will count them off for you and underline them as they appear in John 6:27-66.
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Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, [1] which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."
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So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”
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Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
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So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?
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16 Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
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So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. [2]
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For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” [3]
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So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
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17 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life [4]; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. [5]
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But I told you that although you have seen (me), you do not believe.
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Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
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because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
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And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it (on) the last day.
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For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him (on) the last day.”
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The Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” [6]
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and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
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Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves.
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
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It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
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Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
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Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. [7]
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I am the bread of life. [8]
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Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
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this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. [9]
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven[10]; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” [11]
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The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?” [12]
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Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. [13]
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. [14]
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For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. [15]
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. [16]
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Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. [17]
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This is the bread that came down from heaven. [18] Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” [19]
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These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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20 Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
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Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
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What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
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It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
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And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
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As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. **
Please read and understand the repitition Christ uses is no accident that can be dismissed as meaningless.
God bless
