I think it is always a good idea to remind ourselves that history is filled with misrepresentations that later turn out to be malicious and wrong.

It is interesting how this teaching of Jesus has often been twisted and perverted. The pagan Roman emperors accused the early Christians of being cannibals. “They meet secretly at night and eat the flesh of a man and drink his blood,” some said. “They eat the body of a dead Jew and drink his blood,” said others. Then, strangely, over time the Christians themselves began to say the same thing. I suppose that unconverted pagans came into the churches. Not understanding the spiritual side of these verses, they began to teach that the bread and wine were actually turned into the real body and blood of Jesus in the Mass. But these Bible verses do not speak of that.