John 6:25-61

²⁵And when they had found him over the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, how camest thou hither?

²⁶Jesus answered to them, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you ye seek me, not for ye saw the miracles, but for ye ate of the loaves, and were ful filled.

²⁷Work ye not meat that perisheth, but that that dwelleth into everlasting life, which meat man’s Son shall give to you; for God the Father hath marked him.

²⁸Therefore they said to him, What shall we do, that we work the works of God?

²⁹Jesus answered, and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe to him, whom he sent.

³⁰Therefore they said to him, What token then doest thou, that we see, and believe to thee? what workest thou?

³¹Our fathers ate manna in desert, as it is written, He gave to them bread from heaven to eat.

³²Therefore Jesus saith to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you very bread from heaven;

³³for it is very bread that cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

³⁴Therefore they said to him, Lord, evermore give to us this bread.

³⁵And Jesus said to them, I am bread of life; he that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst.

³⁶But I said to you, that ye have seen me, and ye believe not.

³⁷All thing that the Father giveth to me, shall come to me; and I shall not cast him out, that cometh to me.

³⁸For I came down from heaven, not that I do my will, but the will of him that sent me.

³⁹And this is the will of the Father that sent me, that all thing that the Father gave to me, I lose not or nought of it, but again-raise it in the last day.

⁴⁰And this is the will of my Father that sent me, that each man that seeth the Son, and believeth in him, have everlasting life; and I shall again-raise him in the last day.

⁴¹Therefore the Jews grutched of him, for he had said, I am bread that came down from heaven.

⁴²And they said, Whether this is not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known. How then saith he this, That I came down from heaven?

⁴³Therefore Jesus answered, and said to them, Do not ye grutch together.

⁴⁴No man may come to me, but if or no but the Father that sent me, draw him; and I shall again-raise him in the last day.

⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And all men shall be able to be taught of God. Each man that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

⁴⁶Not for any man hath seen the Father, but this that is of God, hath seen the Father.

⁴⁷Soothly, soothly, I say to you, he that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your fathers ate manna in desert, and be dead.

⁵⁰This is bread coming down from heaven, that if any man eat thereof, he die not.

⁵¹I am living bread, that came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live without end. And the bread that I shall give, is my flesh for the life of the world.

⁵²Therefore the Jews chided together, and said, How may this give to us his flesh to eat?

⁵³Therefore Jesus saith to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, but ye eat the flesh of man’s Son, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you.

⁵⁴He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life, and I shall again-raise him in the last day.

⁵⁵For my flesh is very meat, and my blood is very drink.

⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷As my Father living sent me, and I live for the Father, and he that eateth me, he shall live for me.

⁵⁸This is bread, that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna, and be dead; he that eateth this bread, shall live without end.

⁵⁹He said these things in the syna-gogue, teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Therefore many of his disciples hearing this, said, This word is hard, who may hear it?

⁶¹But Jesus witting at or within himself, that his disciples grutched of this thing, said to them, This thing offendeth you?