This extract comes from one of the best-known chapters of St John’s Gospel, which begins with his account of the “Miracle of the Loaves and Fish”. After the crowd had been fed Jesus had sent them, and his disciples, on their way while he retreated into the hills for a time of peace and quiet… except that this did not happen. A storm blew up on the lake and the disciples were in fear of their lives when, out of nowhere, Jesus appears to them and calms the wind and the waves. When they reach land, at Capernaum, many of the crowd had already returned there themselves and they now approach Jesus to ask him about the feeding miracle that they had witnessed the previous day. As always in these dialogues in this Gospel, Jesus’ words are misunderstood, and he has to go further with his explanation. This explanation, however, only deepens the mystery about his flesh and blood being real food, food for life in him. As part of our celebration of this Feast we are invited to meditate further on this gift of Jesus’ Body and Blood given in our celebration of the Eucharist.