⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of jthe Son of Man and drink his blood, you khave no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood lhas eternal life, and mI will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood nabides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As othe living Father psent me, and qI live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ⁵⁸rThis is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread3 the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹Jesus4 said these things in the synagogue, as he taught sat Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

⁶⁰tWhen many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹But Jesus, vknowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? ⁶²Then what if you were to see wthe Son of Man xascending to ywhere he was before? ⁶³zIt is the Spirit who gives life; athe flesh is no help at all. bThe words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴But cthere are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus vknew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and dwho it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵And he said, “This is why I told you ethat no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

⁶⁶fAfter this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷So Jesus said to gthe twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have hthe words of eternal life, ⁶⁹and iwe have believed, and have come to know, that jyou are kthe Holy One of God.”

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