John 6:48–71

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.

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

⁶¹But Jesus, ^aconscious that His disciples grumbled 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“^aIt is the Spirit 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’s Confession of Faith

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

⁶⁷So Jesus said to ^athe twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

^68aSimon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ^bwords of eternal life.

⁶⁹“We have believed and have come to know that You are ^athe Holy One of God.”

⁷⁰Jesus answered them, “^aDid I Myself not choose you, ^bthe twelve, and yet one of you is ^ca devil?”

⁷¹Now He meant Judas ^athe son of Simon Iscariot, for he, ^bone of ^cthe twelve, ¹was going to betray Him.