John 6:27-44

English Standard Version

²⁷^(A)Do not work for the food that perishes, but for ^(B)the food that endures to eternal life, which ^(C)the Son of Man will give to you. For on ^(D)him God the Father has ^(E)set his seal.” ²⁸Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(F)the works of God?” ²⁹Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(G)that you believe in him whom ^(H)he has sent.” ³⁰So they said to him, ^(I)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ³¹^(J)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(K)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³²Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is ^(L)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴They said to him, ^(M)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵Jesus said to them, ^(N)“I am the bread of life; ^(O)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ³⁷^(P)All that ^(Q)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(R)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸For ^(S)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(T)my own will but ^(U)the will of him ^(V)who sent me. ³⁹And ^(W)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(X)that I should lose nothing of ^(Y)all that he has given me, but ^(Z)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(AA)looks on the Son and ^(AB)believes in him ^(AC)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(AD)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, ^(AE)“Is not this Jesus, ^(AF)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(AG)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(AH)draws him. And ^(AI)I will raise him up on the last day.