John 6:49-70

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

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

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eat of my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

⁵²The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

⁵⁴He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷As the living Father sent me, and I live by reason of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live by reason of me.

⁵⁸This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread will live for ever.

⁵⁹These things he said in a synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This teaching is hard; who can listen to it?

⁶¹Jesus therefore knew within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, and said to them, Doth this offend you?

⁶²What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

⁶³It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to 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 that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.

⁶⁵And he said, For this cause I have told you, that no one can come to me, unless it hath been given him from the Father.

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

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

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

⁶⁹and we have believed and known, that thou art the Holy One of God.

⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you twelve? and one of you is a devil!