⁴⁸“I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert and died. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes from heaven so that whoever eats it won’t die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. The bread I will give to bring life to the world is my flesh.”

⁵²The Jews began to quarrel with each other. They said, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³Jesus told them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have the source of life in you. ⁵⁴Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will bring them back to life on the last day. ⁵⁵My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. ⁵⁷The Father who has life sent me, and I live because of the Father. So those who feed on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread your ancestors ate. They eventually died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”

⁵⁹Jesus said this while he was teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum. ⁶⁰When many of Jesus’ disciples heard him, they said, “What he says is hard to accept. Who wants to listen to him anymore?”

⁶¹Jesus was aware that his disciples were criticizing his message. So Jesus asked them, “Did what I say make you lose faith? ⁶²What if you see the Son of Man go where he was before? ⁶³Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn’t contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual. They are life. ⁶⁴But some of you don’t believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning those who wouldn’t believe and the one who would betray him. ⁶⁵So he added, “That is why I told you that people cannot come to me unless the Father provides the way.”

⁶⁶Jesus’ speech made many of his disciples go back to the lives they had led before they followed Jesus. ⁶⁷So Jesus asked the twelve apostles, “Do you want to leave me too?”

⁶⁸Simon Peter answered Jesus, “Lord, to what person could we go? Your words give eternal life. ⁶⁹Besides, we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

⁷⁰Jesus replied, “I chose all twelve of you. Yet, one of you is a devil.” ⁷¹Jesus meant Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. Judas, who was one of the twelve apostles, would later betray Jesus.

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