How can I interpret something that I'm taking literal?
Taking it literally is a choice -- your choice.
You either said the words or didn't?
have you ever read the Gospel of John?
Let's look at a few episodes together:
John 2:19-21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 3:1-4
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
John 4:9-15
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
John 4:31-34
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Now, here's my question:what do all the people -- the crowd at the Temple, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, and Jesus' disciples -- all have in common here?
You're right about people not reading the Bible the same way, because like with anything if you try to read with a biased opinion you will be blinded from the truths because you are not looking for them.
And I take it that your opinion is unbiased?
What about the Bible doesn't sound right or make sense?
Ask the crowd at the Temple, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, and Jesus' disciples -- Jesus didn't sound right or make sense to them. What were they doing wrong?
Extra bonus question: Except for the temple incident, all these episodes are unique to John's Gospel -- do you think John's trying to tell us something?