John 6:57-64

⁵⁷As the living Father sent me as his messenger, and as I live because the Father lives, so the person who takes me for their food will live because I live.

⁵⁸That is the bread which has come down from heaven — not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; the person who takes this bread for their food will live for ever.”

⁵⁹All this Jesus said in a synagogue, when he was teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is harsh doctrine! Who can bear to listen to it?”

⁶¹But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them,

⁶²“Is this a hindrance to you? What, then, if you should see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

⁶³It is the Spirit that gives life; human strength achieves nothing. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is life.

⁶⁴Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me.” For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;