John 6:30-43

³⁰“What sign, then,” they asked, “are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?

³¹Our ancestors had the manna to eat in the desert; as scripture says — ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

³²“In truth I tell you,” replied Jesus, “Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread from heaven;

³³for the bread that God gives is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.”

³⁴“Master,” they exclaimed, “give us that bread always!”

³⁵“I am the life-giving bread,” Jesus said to them; “whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never thirst again.

³⁶But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me.

³⁷All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and no one who comes to me will I ever turn away.

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

³⁹and his will is this — that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last day.

⁴⁰For it is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have immortal life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last day.”

⁴¹The people began murmuring against Jesus for saying — ‘I am the bread which came down from heaven.’

⁴²“Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son,” they asked, “whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from heaven?”

⁴³“Do not murmur among yourselves,” said Jesus in reply.