John 6:29-52

²⁹Jesus replied, “What God wants you to do is to trust in the one he sent.”

³⁰“What miracle are you going to perform for us to see so we can trust you? What are you able to do?” they asked.

³¹“Our forefathers ate manna in the desert in fulfillment of the Scripture that says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

³²“I tell you the truth, it wasn't Moses who gave you bread from heaven,” Jesus replied. “It's my Father who gives you the true bread of heaven.

³³For the bread of God is the one who comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴“Lord, please give us this kind of bread all the time!” they said.

³⁵“I am the bread of life,” Jesus replied. “Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry again, and anyone who trusts in me will never be thirsty again.

³⁶But as I explained to you before, you have seen me, but you still don't trust me.

³⁷All those the Father gives me will come to me, and I won't reject any of them.

³⁸For I came down from heaven not to do what I want, but to do what the one who sent me wants.

³⁹What he wants is for me not to lose anyone he has given to me, but for me to raise them up at the last day.

⁴⁰What my Father wants is for everyone who sees the Son and trusts in him to have eternal life, and for me to raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

⁴²They said, “Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and his mother. So how can he now tell us, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

⁴³“Stop grumbling to each other,” Jesus said.

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

⁴⁵As is written in Scripture by the prophets, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to and learns from the Father comes to me.

⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen God, except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷I tell you the truth: anyone who trusts in him has eternal life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your forefathers ate manna in the desert but they still died.

⁵⁰But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, and anyone who eats it won't ever die.

⁵¹I am the life-giving bread from heaven, and anyone who eats this bread will live forever. The bread is my flesh that I give so that the world may live.”

⁵²Then the Jews argued heatedly among themselves. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.