Something similar developed about a year before Jesus died. He said that he was “the bread of life ” and that to live forever a person had to“ eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood. ”
حَدَثَ أَمْرٌ مُمَاثِلٌ قَبْلَ سَنَةٍ تَقْرِيبًا مِنْ مَوْتِ يَسُوعَ .‏