John 6:49-68

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

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

⁵¹I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵²The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?

⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

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

⁵⁵for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.

⁵⁶He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.

⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, he also who eats me shall live also on account of me.

⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.

⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples having heard it said, This word is hard; who can hear it?

⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you?

⁶²If then ye see the Son of man ascending up where he was before?

⁶³It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

⁶⁴But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver him up.

⁶⁵And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.

⁶⁶From that time many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Will ye also go away?

⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast words of life eternal;