John 6:49-68

⁴⁹Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

⁵⁰This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

⁵²If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.

⁵³The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁵⁴Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

⁵⁵He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁵⁶For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

⁵⁷He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

⁵⁸As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

⁵⁹This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.

⁶⁰These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

⁶¹Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?

⁶²But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

⁶³If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

⁶⁴It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

⁶⁵But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him.

⁶⁶And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

⁶⁷After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him.

⁶⁸Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?