As the living Father sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." (John 6:48,50,55,57) By this we understand that Jesus gave up his human life in order that the value thereof might be presented to divine justice in heaven as the great ransom-price.

To eat means to appropriate to oneself.

Then it follows that any one who accepts or appropriates to himself the value of Jesus' sacrifice by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and doing the Father's will, that one will have life everlasting through Christ Jesus.

The apostle Paul makes it clear that the death of Jesus was for the benefit of the entire human race when he says: 'Jesus, ...

by the grace of God, tasted death for every man'.