John 6:31-55

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.

⁵¹I am the living bread that came down from Heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

⁵²Therefore the Jews argued among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”

⁵³Then Jesus told them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you have no life in you.

⁵⁴Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person up at the last day,

⁵⁵for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.