John 6:31–51

³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^c

³²Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven! ³³For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴So they said to him, “Sir, always give us this bread!”

³⁵Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again. ³⁶But I said to you that you have seen me and do not believe. ³⁷Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out, ³⁸because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me. ³⁹Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose any of them,^d but raise them^e up on the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹Now the Jews began to grumble^* about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” ⁴²and they were saying, “Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves!^{f 44}No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’^g Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me. ⁴⁶(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—this one has seen the Father.)^{h 47}Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever.ⁱ And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”