John 6:41–59

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^m“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, ⁿ“Is not this Jesus, ^othe son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^pwe know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^qdraws him. And ^rI will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, ^s‘And they will all be ^ttaught by God.’ ^uEveryone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ^46vnot that anyone has seen the Father except ^whe who is from God; he ^xhas seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ^ywhoever believes has eternal life. ^48zI am the bread of life. ^49aYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^bthey died. ^50cThis is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^dand not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ^ethat came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^ffor the life of the world is ^gmy flesh.”

⁵²The Jews then ^hdisputed among themselves, saying, ⁱ“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^jthe Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^khave no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^lhas eternal life, and ^mI will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ⁿabides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As ^othe living Father ^psent me, and ^qI live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^58rThis is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread³ the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹Jesus⁴ said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^sat Capernaum.