Dear Shawn Willson, Just a few months ago, you uploaded a video of yours in your YouTube channel called “ Jesus and The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist Book Review ” wherein you – as the title suggests – review Dr. Brant Pitre’s book, Jesus and The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist . To be honest, I haven’t read that book yet, although I’ve read Dr. Pitre’s longer treatment of the Last Supper entitled Jesus and The Last Supper . Nonetheless, your critique of the Jewish Roots book seem to miss the point regarding the Catholic view on the Eucharist and its Biblical basis. Allow me to raise a few points about it: 1. The verses you cited in order to show that the wider context of John's Gospel support a merely allegorical reading of passages wherein Jesus speaks of having to eat His flesh to have eternal life seem to not support your reading at all. The immediate context of John 3:5 and 4:14 (being born of water and spirit and receiving living water from our Lord), for instance, can be