“I bear my witness of the living reality of the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ, and of the infinite power and reach of His Atonement. Ultimately, it is His Atonement and His grace that is our daily bread” (“Recognizing God’s Hand in Our Daily Blessings,” Ensign, Jan. 2012, 23).
To learn more about how Jesus Christ used symbolism, Jewish religious history, and His listeners’ geographical location to teach His sermon on the Bread of Life (John 6), see Thomas R. Valetta, “The True Bread of Life,” Ensign, Mar. 1999, 6–13; see also “John 6:32–35, 48–51. ‘The True Bread from Heaven,’” in New Testament Student Manual [Church Educational System manual, 2014], 221–22.
“Manna was heavenly food; whereas the bread He had given them was of earth, and only common barley bread at that. He must show them greater signs, and give them richer provender [or finer food], before they would accept Him as the One whom they at first had taken Him to be and whom He now declared Himself to be” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd. ed. [1916], 339–40).
“To eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God is, first, to accept him in the most literal and full sense, with no reservation whatever, as the personal offspring in the flesh of the Eternal Father; and, secondly, it is to keep the commandments of the Son by accepting his gospel, joining his Church, and enduring in obedience and righteousness unto the end. Those who by this course eat his flesh and drink his blood shall have eternal life, meaning exaltation in the highest heaven of the celestial world” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1965–73], 1:358).
“Since those who are one think and believe and act alike, they thus possess the same characteristics and attributes. … Hence, in a figurative sense they are in each other, or they dwell in each other” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1965–73], 1:766).