He is both the Bread of Life and living Bread. And He is the Bread that gives Life, multiplied like manna in the wilderness for the life of the world. Jesus comes to us in the scandalously plain and ordinary way of bread. So easily overlooked and taken for granted. Bread is what the waiter tosses on the table to keep you busy while you study the menu.
Bread is the excuse to eat globs of butter.
Bread is what you use to soak up the last of the pasta sauce and salad dressing. Bread is the sesame seed envelope for two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions. In Jesus' culture, where everyone ate with their hands, bread was even your knife, fork, and spoon. When people go on a diet these days, they tend to leave out the bread, rather than the butter and the pasta sauce. Similarly when life gets hectic, many choose to leave the Bread of Life out of their diet.