John 6:52-65

⁵²The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, 'How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?'

⁵³Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

⁵⁴he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

⁵⁵for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;

⁵⁶he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷'According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

⁵⁸this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live — to the age.'

⁵⁹These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

⁶⁰many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, 'This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

⁶¹And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, 'Doth this stumble you?

⁶²if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

⁶³the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

⁶⁴but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

⁶⁵and he said, 'Because of this I have said to you — No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'