How hard it is to find true friends. Like birds feeding on the ground, a wind, a movement, will set them scurrying. But for the true trail blazers, it matters not. He said they had to eat His flesh and drink His blood. Generations later, Holy Communion with these words are not big deal.
People do it without even asking why too loud.
They even have fancy service containers for the elements. But when He first presented it, almost everyone left. With what little they had, they took big risks. They gave when they didn't really have it to spare with their own needs, but they believed in something. He could not have run the ministry He did without it.