John 6:41–59

Words to the Jews

^41aTherefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that ^bcame down out of heaven.”

⁴²They were saying, “^aIs not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^bwe know? How does He now say, ‘^cI have come down out of heaven’?”

⁴³Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

⁴⁴“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me ^adraws him; and I will ^braise him up on the last day.

⁴⁵“It is written ^ain the prophets, ‘^bAnd they shall all be ^ctaught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

⁴⁶“^aNot that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes ^ahas eternal life.

⁴⁸“^aI am the bread of life.

⁴⁹“^aYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

⁵⁰“This is the bread which ^acomes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and ^bnot die.

⁵¹“^aI am the living bread that ^bcame down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, ^che will live forever; and the bread also which I will give ^dfor the life of the world is ^eMy flesh.”

^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.