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Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood: Jesus or Dionysus?

In this final installment of our three-part series on the Greek god Dionysus, we journey to the influential city of Ephesus—home to the community John was writing to—to examine just how prominent Dionysus worship was in the cultural fabric of this Greek world. John's audience knew Dionysus well.

We then explore one of the most striking elements of this worship: the ritual consumption of meat and wine—the symbolic flesh and blood of Dionysus—believed to unite the participant mystically with the god. This ritual provides a powerful backdrop to Jesus’ radical statement in John 6: “Eat my flesh and drink my blood.”

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