John 6:41–59 (LEB)
41Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
42and they were saying, “Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves!
44No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.
46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—this one has seen the Father.)
47Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.
48I am the bread of life.
49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
50This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die.
51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52So the Jews began to quarrel among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!
54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.
57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.
58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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