John 6:37-58

³⁷All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will by no means cast out.

³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not that I might do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

³⁹And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

⁴⁰And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

⁴¹Therefore the Jews were murmuring about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”

⁴²And they were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does this Man say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.

⁴⁴No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me should draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to Me.

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

⁴⁷Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me has eternal life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

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

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

⁵²Therefore the Jews were contending with one another, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”

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

⁵⁴Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁵⁵For My flesh truly is food, and My blood truly is drink.

⁵⁶He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

⁵⁷Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

⁵⁸This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and died. Whoever eats this bread shall live forever.”