John 6:27-50

²⁷Don’t labor for perishable food, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

²⁸Then they asked Him, “What must we do to do God’s works?”

²⁹Jesus answered them, “This is God’s work, that you believe in Him who He has sent.”

³⁰Therefore they asked Him, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?

³¹Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness. As it’s written, ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.’”

³²Jesus told them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, Moses didn’t give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.

³³For God’s bread is He who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread forever.”

³⁵Jesus told them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

³⁶As I told you, you have seen me, and yet you still don’t believe.

³⁷All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

³⁸I have come down from Heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

³⁹This is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all He has given me I should lose none, but should raise them up at the last day.

⁴⁰This is also the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹The Jews then grumbled about Jesus, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from Heaven.”

⁴²They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He claim, ‘I have come down from Heaven’?”

⁴³Jesus answered, “Stop grumbling among yourselves.

⁴⁴No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day.

⁴⁵It’s written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.

⁴⁶Nobody has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷Most assuredly, I tell you, everyone who believes in me has everlasting life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your forefathers ate manna in the wilderness, but they died.

⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.