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 ⁵⁷Just 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

MANY DISCIPLES DESERT JESUS

⁶⁰Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept^E it?”

⁶¹Jesus, knowing in himself^z that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? ⁶²Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man^aa ascending^ab to where he was before? ⁶³The Spirit^ac is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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Footnotes

DOther omit the manna
E hear

Cross references

r Mt 26:26–29; Mk 14:22–25; Lk 22:15–20; 1Co 11:23–25
s Mt 16:21
t Jn 15:4–5; 1Jn 3:24; 4:13–16
u Mt 25:31–46; Heb 10:31
v Php 1:21; 1Pt 1:18
w Rv 4:9
x Jms 2:2
y Lk 10:15
z Mk 10:32; Jn 1:47–48; 2:24–25; 4:17–18; 9:3; 11:4,11; 13:10–11,38
aa Mk 2:10
ab Jn 3:13; 20:17; Ac 1:9
ac Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22