John 6:28-43

²⁸Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

²⁹Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

³⁰So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

³¹Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

³²Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

³³The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

³⁴Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

³⁵And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

³⁶But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

³⁷Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

³⁹And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

⁴⁰This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

⁴¹Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

⁴³Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another.