John 6:41–59

⁴¹Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, ^awhose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁴³Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws ^bhim, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ^cAnd they will all be taught by God. ^deEveryone who has listened to and learned from the Father ^fcomes to Me— ⁴⁶not that anyone has seen the Father ^gexcept the One who is from God. ^hHe has seen the Father. ⁱ

⁴⁷“I assure you: Anyone who believes ^jhas eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna ^kin the wilderness, ^land they died. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. ^m51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live ⁿforever. ^oThe bread that I will give for the life ^pof the world is My flesh.” ^q

⁵²At that, the Jews argued ^ramong themselves, ^s“How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

⁵³So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man ^tand drink His blood, ^uyou do not have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood ^vhas eternal life, and I will raise ^whim up on the last day, ⁵⁵because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. ⁵⁶The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him. ^x57Just as the living ^yFather sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live ^zbecause of Me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna ^ayour fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.” ^b

⁵⁹He said these things while teaching in the synagogue ^cin Capernaum. ^d