John 6:43-54

⁴³Jesus replied to them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves about what I just said!

⁴⁴My Father, who sent me, makes people want to come to me. No others will come to me to receive eternal life. Those who come to me are the only ones who will believe in me. I will ◄cause them to be alive again/raise them from the dead► ◄on the last day/on the judgment day►.

⁴⁵It was written ◄ by one of the prophets/by the prophet Isaiah► {◄ One of the prophets/The prophet Isaiah► wrote} about all those who will trust in me, ‘God will teach them all.’ Everyone who listens to what my Father says and learns from him will ◄come to/believe in► me.

⁴⁶I came from God. I am the only one who has seen my Father. No one else has seen him.

⁴⁷Listen to this carefully: Everyone who believes ◄ my message/in me► has eternal life.

⁴⁸Just like food MET sustains your physical life, I am the one who enables you to have spiritual life.

⁴⁹Even though your ancestors ate the manna while they were traveling in the desolate area, they died anyway.

⁵⁰But the bread I am talking about is something that came down from heaven. If people eat that bread, their spirits will never die.

⁵¹I am the one who came down from heaven to enable people to have spiritual life. If people take what I will give them, they will live forever. What I will give them is my flesh, which I will give to all the people in MTY the world in order that they may have spiritual life.”

⁵²Then the Jewish leaders SYN began to argue among themselves. They said, “◄There is no way this man can give us his flesh to eat!/How can this man give us his flesh to eat?►” RHQ

⁵³So, speaking figuratively of the need for them to accept for themselves the benefits of his sacrificing himself and shedding his blood to atone for their sins MET, Jesus said to them, “Listen carefully to this: Although I am the one who came from heaven, if you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will not have eternal life.

⁵⁴Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will cause them to become alive again at ◄the last day/the judgment day►,