John 6:54-69

⁵⁴Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will cause them to become alive again at ◄the last day/the judgment day►,

⁵⁵because my flesh and my blood are truly spiritual food.

⁵⁶Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with them.

⁵⁷My Father, who is the source of everything that lives, sent me, and I live because my Father has given me life. Similarly those who eat my flesh will live eternally because of what I do for them.

⁵⁸I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Although our ancestors ate manna, they later died anyway. But those who eat this bread will live forever.”

⁵⁹He said this while he was teaching people in ◄the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place► in Capernaum.

⁶⁰After they heard him say that, many of his disciples said, “What he is teaching is hard to understand; ◄it is very difficult for anyone to accept it!/how can anyone accept it?► RHQ”

⁶¹Jesus was aware that his disciples were grumbling about it, so he said to them, “◄I am sorry that this is offending you./Is this offending you?► RHQ

⁶²◄ Perhaps you will believe my message if you see me, the one who came from heaven, ascending there to where I was before!/ (What will you think if you see me, the one who came from heaven, ascending there to where I was before)?► RHQ

⁶³God's Spirit is the one who gives people eternal life. Human efforts are no help at all for giving people eternal life. The message I have spoken to you gives spiritual life (OR, comes from God's Spirit and gives eternal life.)

⁶⁴But there are some of you who do not believe my message.” Jesus said that because he knew from the time he started MTY his ministry which of them would not believe his message. He also knew who would ◄betray him/enable his enemies to seize him►.

⁶⁵Then he continued by saying, “That is why I told you that only those whom my Father has enabled to believe in me will come to me and receive eternal life.”

⁶⁶From that time, many of his disciples left him and no longer went with him.

⁶⁷So he said to us twelve apostles, “You do not want to leave me also, do you?”

⁶⁸Simon Peter replied to him, “Lord, we will not leave you, because ◄there is no other person like you to whom we can go!/what other person is there like you to whom we can go?► RHQ You have the message about eternal life!

⁶⁹We have come to believe for certain that you are the holy one who has come from God!”