45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a](A) 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;(B) only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.(C) 48 I am the bread of life.(D) 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.(E) 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,(F) which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread(G) that came down from heaven.(H) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”(I)

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  1. John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples(A) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”(B)

61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?(C) 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man(D) ascend to where he was before!(E) 63 The Spirit gives life;(F) the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known(G) from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.(H) 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”(I)

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  1. John 6:63 Or are Spirit; or are spirit

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