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. 39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of 5everything that He has given Me I will 6lose nothing, but will 7raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who 8sees the Son and 9believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will 10raise him up on the last day.”

4111So then the Jews were complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that 12came down out of heaven.” 42And they were saying, “13Is this not 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, “Stop complaining 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, the one 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 that 25comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and 26not die. 5127I am the living bread that 28came down out of heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, 29he will live forever; and the bread which I will give 30for the life of the world also 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. 54The one 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. 56The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood 36remains in Me, and I in him. 57Just as the 37living Father 38sent Me, and I live because of the Father, the one who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58This is the bread that 39came down out of heaven, not as 40the fathers ate and died; the one who eats this bread 41will live forever.” 59These things He said 42in the synagogue as He taught 43in Capernaum.

60So then many of His 44disciples, when they heard this, said, “45This statement is very 46unpleasant; who can listen to it?” 61But Jesus, 47aware that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them, “Is this 4849offensive to you? 62What then if you see 50the Son of Man 51ascending to where He was before? 6352It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; 53the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. 64But there are 54some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus 55knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and 56who it was who would 57betray Him. 65And He was saying, “For this reason I have 58told you that no one can come to Me unless 59it has been granted him from the Father.”

66As a result of this many of His 60disciples 61left, and would no longer walk with Him. 67So Jesus said to 62the twelve, “You do not want to leave also, do you?” 6863Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have 64words of eternal life. 69And we have already believed and have come to know that You are 65the Holy One of God.” 70Jesus answered them, “66Did I Myself not choose you, 67the twelve? And yet one of you is 68a devil.” 71Now He meant Judas 69the son of Simon Iscariot; for he, 70one of 71the twelve, 72was going to betray Him.