John 6:57-71

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;

⁶⁵and he added, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless enabled by the Father.”

⁶⁶After this many of his disciples drew back, and did not go about with him any longer.

⁶⁷So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you also wish to leave me?”

⁶⁸But Simon Peter answered, “Master, to whom would we go? Eternal life is in your teaching;

⁶⁹and we have learned to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

⁷⁰“Didn't I myself choose you to be the Twelve?” replied Jesus; “and yet, even of you, one is playing the devil's part.”

⁷¹He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who was about to betray him, though he was one of the Twelve.