John 6:26-58

26Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you 1seek Me, not because you saw 2signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27Do not 3work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to 4eternal life, which 5the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, 6has set His seal.” 28Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?” 29Jesus answered and said to them, “This is 7the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He 8has sent.” 30So they said to Him, “9What then do You do for a 10sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform? 3111Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘12He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’” 32Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. 33For the bread of God is 13that which 14comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.” 34Then they said to Him, “Lord, always 15give us this bread.”

35Jesus said to them, “16I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me 17will never thirst. 36But 18I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. 3719All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. 38For 20I have come down from heaven, 21not to do My own will, but 22the will of Him who 23sent Me. 39This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of 24all that He has given Me I 25lose nothing, but 26raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who 27beholds the Son and 28believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will 29raise him up on the last day.”

4130Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that 31came down out of heaven.” 42They were saying, “32Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother 33we know? How does He now say, ‘34I have come down out of heaven’?” 43Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me 35draws him; and I will 36raise him up on the last day. 45It is written 37in the prophets, ‘38And they shall all be 39taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. 4640Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father. 47Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes 41has eternal life. 4842I am the bread of life. 4943Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread which 44comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and 45not die. 5146I am the living bread that 47came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, 48he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give 49for the life of the world is 50My flesh.”

5251Then the Jews 52began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of 53the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will 54raise him up on the last day. 55For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood 55abides in Me, and I in him. 57As the 56living Father 57sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58This is the bread which 58came down out of heaven; not as 59the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread 60will live forever.”