John 6:48–63

⁴⁸I am the bread of the life; ⁴⁹your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died; ⁵⁰this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

⁵¹‘I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.’ ⁵²The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, ‘How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?’ ⁵³Jesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; ⁵⁴he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; ⁵⁵for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; ⁵⁶he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷‘According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; ⁵⁸this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live—to the age.’ ⁵⁹These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, ‘This word is hard; who is able to hear it?’ ⁶¹And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, ‘Doth this stumble you? ⁶²if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before? ⁶³the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;