39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. |
40 For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." |
41 At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." |
42 They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" |
43 "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. |
44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. |
45 It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'4 6:45 Isaiah 54:13 Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. |
46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. |
47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. |
48 I am the bread of life. |
49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. |
50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. |
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." |
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" |
53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. |
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. |
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. |
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. |
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. |
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." |
59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. |
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" |
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? |
62 What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! |
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit5 6:63 Or Spirit and they are life. |
64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. |
65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." |
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. |
67 "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. |
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. |
69 We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." |
70 Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" |
71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) |
