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

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Footnotes

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”