John 6:44-65

English Standard Version

⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(A)draws him. And ^(B)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, ^(C)‘And they will all be ^(D)taught by God.’ ^(E)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ⁴⁶^(F)not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(G)he who is from God; he ^(H)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(I)whoever believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸^(J)I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹^(K)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(L)they died. ⁵⁰^(M)This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(N)and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ^(O)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^(P)for the life of the world is ^(Q)my flesh.”

⁵²The Jews then ^(R)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(S)“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 ^(T)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(U)have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(V)has eternal life, and ^(W)I 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 ^(X)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As ^(Y)the living Father ^(Z)sent me, and ^(AA)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ⁵⁸^(AB)This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[a] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹Jesus^[b] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^(AC)at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

⁶⁰^(AD)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹But Jesus, ^(AE)knowing 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 ^(AF)the Son of Man ^(AG)ascending to ^(AH)where he was before? ⁶³^(AI)It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(AJ)the flesh is no help at all. ^(AK)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴But ^(AL)there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus ^(AM)knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and ^(AN)who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵And he said, “This is why I told you ^(AO)that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”