⁵⁴ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

⁵⁵ for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;

⁵⁶ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷ `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

⁵⁸ this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'

⁵⁹ These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

⁶⁰ many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

⁶¹ And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?

⁶² if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

⁶⁴ but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

⁶⁵ and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

⁶⁶ From this [time] many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

⁶⁷ Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'

⁶⁸ Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;