The Bread of Life

35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one who comes to me will never hunger, and the one who believes in me will never thirst again.”

36But I told you that you have even seen me, and yet you do not believe.

37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out.

38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

39And this is the will of the one who sent me: that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise it up on the last day.

40For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I myself will raise him up on the last day.

41So the Jews were grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.”

44No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

45It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me.

46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.

47Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

48I am the bread of life.

49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and not die.

51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

52So the Jews were arguing among themselves, saying, “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 the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.”

54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; the one who eats this bread will live forever.

59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.