One has to be out of their mind[of the other guy who wants to be god] to follow Him! If that mind you have knows God, then what is the use of the Mind of Christ?
It says we: Please note: But we have the mind of Christ.
I am the Bread of Life [that gives life--the Living Bread].
Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and [yet] they died.
[But] this is the Bread that comes down from heaven, so that [any]one may eat of it and never die.
I [Myself] am this Living Bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever; and also the Bread that I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh (body).
Then the Jews angrily contended with one another, saying, How is He able to give us His flesh to eat?
And Jesus said to them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, you cannot have any life in you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood [unless you appropriate His life and the saving merit of His blood].
He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood has (possesses now) eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.
For My flesh is true and genuine food, and My blood is true and genuine drink.
He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood dwells continually in Me, and I [in like manner dwell continually] in him.
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live by (through, because of) the Father, even so whoever continues to feed on Me [whoever takes Me for his food and is nourished by Me] shall [in his turn] live through and because of Me.
This is the Bread that came down from heaven. It is not like the manna which our forefathers ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live forever.
He said these things in a synagogue while He was teaching at Capernaum.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
AMPLIFIED: When His disciples heard this, many of them said, This is a hard and difficult and strange saying (an offensive and unbearable message). Who can stand to hear it? [Who can be expected to listen to such teaching?]
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
[What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
FROM THAT [TIME] MANY, MANY, MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES WENT BACK, AND WALKED NO MORE WITH HIM.
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And blessed is [he], whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. [this is a reality to me]
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