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- At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."
- They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"
- "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered.
- "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
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- No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
- I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
- I am the bread of life.
- Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.
- But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
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- I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
- Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
- Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
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- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
- Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
- This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."
- He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
- On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
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- Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
- What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
- The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
- He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."
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- From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
- "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
- Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."
- Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
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- (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
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