“I am…”

(a) Why do you think Jesus said “I am the bread of life”, rather than “the caviar,” or “the cake” or the “confectionary” (assuming those things were available in those days!)?

(b) Jesus talks about ‘eating his flesh’ and ‘drinking his blood’.  To those hearing this for the first time, it must have sounded shocking.  But in what sense do his followers do precisely that (for example, when they take Holy Communion)?

(c) A leading thought in John 8:12-20 is that of ‘testimony’.  In what ways can we ‘testify’ to who Jesus is in our own day?