John 6:41-59

41Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

42and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43Jesus replied, “Do not complain about me to one another.

44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

47I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

48I am the bread of life.

49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

52Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the 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 raise 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 resides in me, and I in him.

57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

59Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.