John 6:41–59

⁴¹At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^q whose father and mother we know?^r How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^s

⁴³“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^t and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^du Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^v only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^{w 48}I am the bread of life.^{x 49}Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^{y 50}But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^z which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread^a that came down from heaven.^b Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^c

⁵²Then the Jews^d began to argue sharply among themselves,^e “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^f of the Son of Man^g and drink his blood,^h you have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^{i 55}For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^{j 57}Just as the living Father sent me^k and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^{l 59}He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.