Jesus, the Bread of Life — Part Three

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, m“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, n“Is not this Jesus, othe son of Joseph, whose father and mother pwe know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me qdraws him. And rI will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, s‘And they will all be ttaught by God.’ uEveryone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ⁴⁶vnot that anyone has seen the Father except whe who is from God; he xhas seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ywhoever believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸zI am the bread of life. ⁴⁹aYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and bthey died. ⁵⁰cThis is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it dand not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ethat came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ffor the life of the world is gmy flesh.”

⁵²The Jews then hdisputed among themselves, saying, i“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 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.