“As the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.”

Here He was not only thinking of the fact that His human life had been given to Him, and was sustained, by ‘the living Father', the very Fountain of Life Himself, but that His resurrection would also be the Father's work. Both His present and future life would be sustained by ‘the living Father' Who sent Him. He had ‘life', and would continue to have life, ‘because of the Father'. In the same way, to those who ‘eat Him', i.e. seek to benefit by His death by coming to Him in full commitment, He Himself will give eternal life, and will raise them at the last day. They will receive their life from Him, so that He Who receives life from the living Father will sustain that life in His own.

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