⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven^(A) for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test^(B) them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray:

³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.^{(A) 33} But seek first his kingdom^(B) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.^{(C) 34} Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Jesus the Bread of Life

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi,^(A) when did you get here?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me,^(B) not because you saw the signs^(C) I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures^(D) to eternal life,^(E) which the Son of Man^(F) will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal^(G) of approval.”

²⁸ Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

²⁹ Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe^(H) in the one he has sent.”^(I)

³⁰ So they asked him, “What sign^(J) then will you give that we may see it and believe you?^(K) What will you do? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna^(L) in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[a]”^(M)

³² Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven^(N) and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”^(O)

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am^(P) the bread of life.^(Q) Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes^(R) in me will never be thirsty.^{(S) 36} But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me^(T) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(U) not to do my will but to do the will^(V) of him who sent me.^{(W) 39} And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(X) but raise them up at the last day.^{(Y) 40} For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(Z) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(AA) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹ At this the Jews there 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,^(AB) whose father and mother we know?^(AC) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(AD)

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(AE) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[b](AF) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(AG) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^{(AH) 48} I am the bread of life.^{(AI) 49} Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^{(AJ) 50} But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(AK) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread^(AL) that came down from heaven.^(AM) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(AN)