They Walked Away
As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. – John 6:66 Notice one particular group of people in today’s Gospel: the ones who walked away. These were Jesus’s followers, but they abandoned their discipleship over Christ’s teaching on the Eucharist. It was just too difficult for them to believe that they were to eat something that looked like bread and wine, but…