⁵⁴Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

⁵⁵He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁵⁶For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

⁵⁷He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

⁵⁸As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

⁵⁹This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

⁶⁰These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

⁶¹Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?

⁶²But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

⁶³If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

⁶⁴It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

⁶⁵But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that would betray him.

⁶⁶And he said: Therefore did I say to you that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

⁶⁷After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

⁶⁸Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?

⁶⁹And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

⁷⁰And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

⁷¹Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you is a devil.

⁷²Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve.

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