John 6:35-48

35Then Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread that gives life to people. Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry. Anyone who believes in me will never be thirsty.

36You have seen me, but still you do not believe in me. I have told you that before.

37Everyone that the Father gives to me will come to me. When anyone comes to me, I will never send that person away.

38I have not come down from heaven to do what I myself choose to do. No, my Father has sent me. I have come to do what he wants me to do.

39He has sent me. He does not want me to lose any of the people that he has given to me. Not even one of them. He wants me to raise all of them up to life on the last day.

40These are the people who will have life for ever with God: everyone who sees the Son and believes in him. I will raise them all up on the last day. That is what my Father wants.’

41Jesus had said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ When he said this, the Jewish leaders there did not like it. So they started to say bad things about Jesus.

42They said, ‘This is Jesus, the son of Joseph. We know his father and his mother. He should not say that he came down from heaven.’

43Jesus answered, ‘Stop saying these bad things about me to each other.

44The Father has sent me. Nobody can come to me unless the Father brings them to me. I will raise those people up on the last day, so that they have life for ever.

45The prophets wrote in the Bible, “God will teach all the people.” Everyone who hears the Father's message and learns from him will come to me.

46I came from God and I am the only one who has seen the Father. Nobody else has seen him.

47I tell you this: The person who believes my message has life for ever.

48I am the bread that causes you to live.