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- Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."
- They were saying, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"
- Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble among yourselves.
- "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
- "It is written in the prophets, 'AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.
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- "Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.
- "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
- "I am the bread of life.
- "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- "This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
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- "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."
- Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"
- So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
- "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
- "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
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- "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
- "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
- "This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever."
- These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
- Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?"
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- But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
- "What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
- "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
- "But there are some of you who do not believe " For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
- And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father."
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- As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
- So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"
- Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
- "We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God."
- Jesus answered them, "Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?"
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- Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
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