John 6:28-65

English Standard Version

²⁸ Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(A)the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(B)that you believe in him whom ^(C)he has sent.” ³⁰ So they said to him, ^(D)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31 (E)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(F)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³² Jesus 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. ³³ For the bread of God is ^(G)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ They said to him, ^(H)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

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

⁴¹ So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(Y)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, ^(Z)“Is not this Jesus, ^(AA)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(AB)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(AC)draws him. And ^(AD)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets, ^(AE)‘And they will all be ^(AF)taught by God.’ ^(AG)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ^46 (AH)not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(AI)he who is from God; he ^(AJ)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AK)whoever believes has eternal life. ^48 (AL)I am the bread of life. ^49 (AM)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(AN)they died. ^50 (AO)This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(AP)and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread ^(AQ)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^(AR)for the life of the world is ^(AS)my flesh.”

⁵² The Jews then ^(AT)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(AU)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^(AV)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(AW)have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(AX)has eternal life, and ^(AY)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(AZ)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(BA)the living Father ^(BB)sent me, and ^(BC)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^58 (BD)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.” ⁵⁹ Jesus^[b] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^(BE)at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

^60 (BF)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹ But Jesus, ^(BG)knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? ⁶² Then what if you were to see ^(BH)the Son of Man ^(BI)ascending to ^(BJ)where he was before? ^63 (BK)It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(BL)the flesh is no help at all. ^(BM)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But ^(BN)there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus ^(BO)knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and ^(BP)who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵ And he said, “This is why I told you ^(BQ)that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”