John 6:38-71

38For 1I have come down from heaven, 2not to do My own will, but 3the will of Him who 4sent Me. 39This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of 5all that He has given Me I 6lose nothing, but 7raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who 8beholds the Son and 9believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will 10raise him up on the last day.”

4111Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that 12came down out of heaven.” 42They were saying, “13Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother 14we know? How does He now say, ‘15I 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 16draws him; and I will 17raise him up on the last day. 45It is written 18in the prophets, ‘19And they shall all be 20taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. 4621Not 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 22has eternal life. 4823I am the bread of life. 4924Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread which 25comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and 26not die. 5127I am the living bread that 28came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, 29he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give 30for the life of the world is 31My flesh.”

5232Then the Jews 33began 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 34the 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 35raise 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 36abides in Me, and I in him. 57As the 37living Father 38sent 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 39came down out of heaven; not as 40the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread 41will live forever.” 59These things He said 42in the synagogue as He taught 43in Capernaum.

60Therefore many of His 44disciples, when they heard this said, “45This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” 61But Jesus, 46conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this 47cause you to stumble? 62What then if you see 48the Son of Man 49ascending to where He was before? 6350It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; 51the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64But there are 52some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus 53knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and 54who it was that would 55betray Him. 65And He was saying, “For this reason I have 56said to you, that no one can come to Me unless 57it has been granted him from the Father.”

66As a result of this many of His 58disciples 59withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore. 67So Jesus said to 60the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” 6861Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have 62words of eternal life. 69We have believed and have come to know that You are 63the Holy One of God.” 70Jesus answered them, “64Did I Myself not choose you, 65the twelve, and yet one of you is 66a devil?” 71Now He meant Judas 67the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, 68one of 69the twelve, 70was going to betray Him.