John 6:32-58

32Jesus said to them, “I can guarantee this truth: Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33God’s bread is the man who comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time.”

35Jesus told them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

36I’ve told you that you have seen me. However, you don’t believe in me.

37Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me.

38I haven’t come from heaven to do what I want to do. I’ve come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

39The one who sent me doesn’t want me to lose any of those he gave me. He wants me to bring them back to life on the last day.

40My Father wants all those who see the Son and believe in him to have eternal life. He wants me to bring them back to life on the last day.”

41The Jews began to criticize Jesus for saying, “I am the bread that came from heaven.”

42They asked, “Isn’t this man Jesus, Joseph’s son? Don’t we know his father and mother? How can he say now, ‘I came from heaven’?”

43Jesus responded, “Stop criticizing me!

44People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me brings them to me. I will bring these people back to life on the last day.

45The prophets wrote, ‘God will teach everyone.’ Those who do what they have learned from the Father come to me.

46I’m saying that no one has seen the Father. Only the one who is from God has seen the Father.

47I can guarantee this truth: Every believer has eternal life.

48“I am the bread of life.

49Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert and died.

50This is the bread that comes from heaven so that whoever eats it won’t die.

51I am the living bread that came from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. The bread I will give to bring life to the world is my flesh.”

52The Jews began to quarrel with each other. They said, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53Jesus told them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have the source of life in you.

54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will bring them back to life on the last day.

55My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

57The Father who has life sent me, and I live because of the Father. So those who feed on me will live because of me.

58This is the bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread your ancestors ate. They eventually died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”