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sign if you want us to believe in you. What can
you do? 31After all, our ancestors ate manna
while they journeyed through the wilderness!
The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread
from heaven to eat.’*”
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Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, M
oses
didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father
did. And now he offers you the true bread
from heaven. 33 The true bread of God is the
one who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every
day.”
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Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will never be hungry
again. Whoever believes in me will never be
thirsty. 36 But you haven’t believed in me even
though you have seen me. 37 However, those
the Father has given me will come to me, and
I will never reject them. 38 For I have come
down from heaven to do the will of God who
sent me, not to do my own will. 39And this is
the will of God, that I should not lose even
one of all those he has given me, but that I
should raise them up at the last day. 40 For it is
my Father’s will that all who see his Son and
believe in him should have eternal life. I will
raise them up at the last day.”
41 Then the people* began to murmur in
disagreement because he had said, “I am the
bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They
said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We
know his father and mother. How can he say,
‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 But J
esus replied, “Stop complaining
about what I said. 44 For no one can come to
me unless the Father who sent me draws them
to me, and at the last day I will raise them up.
45As it is written in the Scriptures,* ‘They will
all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to
the Father and learns from him comes to me.
46 (Not that anyone has ever seen the Father;
only I, who was sent from God, have seen
him.)
47 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes
has eternal life. 48 Yes, I am the bread of life!
49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness,
but they all died. 50Anyone who eats the bread
from heaven, however, will never die. 51 I am
the living bread that came down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live forever;
and this bread, which I will offer so the world
may live, is my flesh.”
52 Then the people began arguing with each
other about what he meant. “How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life
within you. 54 But anyone who eats my flesh
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I
will raise that person at the last day. 55 For my
flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my
blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 I live
because of the living Father who sent me; in
the same way, anyone who feeds on me will
live because of me. 58 I am the true bread that
came down from heaven. Anyone who eats
this bread will not die as your ancestors did
(even though they ate the manna) but will live
forever.”
59 He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
of his disciples said, “This is very
hard to understand. How can anyone accept
it?”
61 Jesus was aware that his disciples were
complaining, so he said to them, “Does this
offend you? 62 Then what will you think if you
see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again?
63 The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human
effort accomplishes nothing. And the very
words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But some of you do not believe me.” (For
Jesus knew from the beginning which ones
didn’t believe, and he knew who would betray
him.) 65 Then he said, “That is why I said that
people can’t come to me unless the Father
gives them to me.”
66At this point many of his disciples turned
away and deserted him. 67 Then Jesus turned
to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going
to leave?”
68 Si
mon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom
would we go? You have the words that give
eternal life. 69 We believe, and we know you
are the Holy One of God.*”
70 Then J
esus said, “I chose the twelve of
you, but one is a devil.” 71 He was speaking
of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, one of the
Twelve, who would later betray him.
60 Many
Jesus and His Brothers
After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee.
He wanted to stay out of Judea, where
the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.
2 But soon it was time for the Jewish Festival
of Shelters, 3 and Jesus’ brothers said to him,
“Leave here and go to Judea, where your
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:31 Exod 16:4; Ps 78:24. 6:41 Greek Jewish people; also in 6:52. 6:45 Greek in the prophets. Isa 54:13. 6:69 Other
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manuscripts read you are the Christ, the Holy One of God; still others read you are the Christ, the Son of God; and still others
read you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
