John 6:41–59

⁴¹Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph,^aq whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁴³Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws^A him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets:^a And they will all be taught by God.^Bb Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father^c comes to me—⁴⁶not that anyone has seen the Father^d except the one who is from God.^e He has seen the Father.^f

⁴⁷“Truly I tell you, anyone who believes^C has eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your ancestors ate the manna^g in the wilderness,^h and they died. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.^{i 51}I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live^j forever.^k The bread that I will give for the life^l of the world is my flesh.”^m

⁵²At that, the Jews arguedⁿ among themselves,^o “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man^p and drink his blood,^q you do not have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood^r has eternal life, and I will raise^s him up on the last day, ⁵⁵because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.^{t 57}Just as the living^u Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live^v because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna^D your ancestors ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”^w

⁵⁹He said these things while teaching in the synagogue^x in Capernaum.^y