John 6:52–66

^52aThen the Jews ^bbegan to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^athe Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

⁵⁴“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will ^araise him up on the last day.

⁵⁵“For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

⁵⁶“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood ^aabides in Me, and I in him.

⁵⁷“As the ^aliving Father ^bsent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

⁵⁸“This is the bread which ^acame down out of heaven, not as ^bthe fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread ^cwill live forever.”

Words to the Disciples

⁵⁹These things He said ^ain the synagogue as He taught ^bin Capernaum.

⁶⁰Therefore many of His ^adisciples, when they heard this said, “^bThis is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

⁶¹But Jesus, ^aknowing in Himself that His disciples were grumbling at this, said to them, “Does this ^bcause you to stumble?

⁶²“What then if you see ^athe Son of Man ^bascending to where He was before?

⁶³“^aThe Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; ^bthe words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

⁶⁴“But there are ^asome of you who do not believe.” For Jesus ^bknew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and ^cwho it was that would ¹betray Him.

⁶⁵And He was saying, “For this reason I have ^asaid to you, that no one can come to Me unless ^bit has been granted him from the Father.”

Peter Confesses Jesus Is the Christ

⁶⁶As a result of this many of His ^adisciples ^1bwent away and were not walking with Him anymore.