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change, "Abide in Me and I in you" to "Abide in Me and My words abide in you"? It is because the Lord's abiding by itself is too mysterious and too objective. Just to say that the Lord abides in us is something that is too far beyond us. For example, when the Lord told the Jewish people that He was the food and the bread of life and that people can eat and feed on Him as the living food and the living bread, the Jews were aston ished and surprised, being unable to understand (John 6:35, 57, 60). They asked themselves what it meant to eat and feed on Him. Then the Lord Jesus told them that His flesh was the real meat and His blood was the real drink (John 6:55). The Lord simply meant that He had to die, for His blood had to be separated from His flesh. He had to die so that He could impart Himself to us through death and resurrection. The Lord said all of this in view of the background of the Jewish Passover. During the Passover the Jews always slew the lamb, sprinkled its blood on the doorpost, and fed upon its flesh. Knowing that the Jews had such a background, the Lord in tended that they should understand what He said. Hence, the Lord said that His flesh is eat able and His blood drinkable. Nevertheless, they could not understand and asked one another