re: Pope (emeritus) Benedict has died

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Also, perhaps you should examine John as a whole more closely where Jesus spoke of Himself using symbolic language time and time again, such as being a vine, a door, and a shepherd.

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Yeah, and then he moves on. No one questions it and everyone seems to understand that he isn't speaking literal. It's in the Bread of Life discourse in John 6 where he gets a lot of pushback because the people listening to him speak take him literally. Instead of hitting them with an analogy or a parable to make them better understand what he is saying, he doubles down and repeats himself, dwelling on this imagery much more than he does when he calls himself the light of the world or the vine or a door or a shepherd.