John 6:48-62

⁴⁸“I am the bread of the Life.

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

⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down out of Heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. Actually, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give on behalf of the life of the world.”

⁵²At that the Jews started quarrelling among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?!”

⁵³So Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of the Man and drink His blood, you do not have Life within yourselves.

⁵⁴Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵Really, my flesh is genuine food and my blood is genuine drink.

⁵⁶Whoever chews 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 also the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

⁵⁸This is the bread that came down out of Heaven. Whoever feeds on this bread of mine will live forever (in contrast to your fathers who ate the manna and died).”

⁵⁹He said these things while teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Therefore, upon hearing this many from among His disciples said: “This word is hard! Who is able to hear it?”

⁶¹So Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?

⁶²What if you should see the Son of the Man going up to where He was at first?