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 ⁴⁴No 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 ⁴⁷Truly, 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.”

⁵²So the Jews began to quarrel^* among themselves,^j saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves! ⁵⁴The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶The one who eats^* my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him. ⁵⁷Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats^* me—that one will live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats^* this bread will live forever.”^k

Many of Jesus’ Disciples Offended by His Teaching

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

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John 6:44: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Footnotes

*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to grumble”)
fLiterally “with one another”
gA quotation from Isa 54:13
hThe switch from first person in vv. 44–45 to third person here and back to first person in vv. 47–51 suggests that this verse is a parenthetical comment by the author rather than the words of Jesus
iLiterally “for the age”
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to quarrel”)
jLiterally “with one another”
*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English
kLiterally “for the age”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal