John 6:41–59

⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven. ⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does he say, I am come down out of heaven? ⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father himself, and has learned of him, comes to me; ⁴⁶not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me has life eternal. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died. ⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. ⁵²The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat? ⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. ⁵⁴He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day: ⁵⁵for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink. ⁵⁶He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, he also who eats me shall live also on account of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever. ⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.