John 6:45-62

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.

⁵⁶One who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in that person.

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

⁵⁸This is the bread which came down from Heaven, not like the manna your forefathers ate, and died. A person who eats this bread will live forever.”

⁵⁹He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

⁶⁰Therefore when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can stand to hear it?”

⁶¹Jesus, aware that his disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

⁶²What if you saw the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?