John 6:48-63

48I am the bread of life.

49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

52At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

55because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

57Just as the living Father sent me 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; it is not like the manna your ancestors ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”

61Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

62Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

63The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.