30. So the people asked, “What miracle will you do? If we can see a miracle, then we will believe you. What will you do?
31. Our ancestors ate the manna in the desert. This is written in the Scriptures: ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. Moses was not the one who gave you bread from heaven. But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33. God’s bread is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34. The people said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35. Then Jesus said, “I am the bread that gives life. He who comes to me will never be hungry. He who believes in me will never be thirsty.
36. But as I told you before, you have seen me, and still you don’t believe.
37. The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.
38. I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do. I did not come to do what I want to do.
39. I must not lose even one of those that God has given me, but I must raise them up on the last day. This is what the One who sent me wants me to do.
40. Everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life. I will raise him up on the last day. This is what my Father wants.”
41. The Jews began to complain about Jesus. They complained because he said, “I am the bread that comes down from heaven.”
42. The Jews said, “This is Jesus. We know his father and mother. He is only Joseph’s son. How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43. But Jesus answered, “Stop complaining to each other.
44. The Father is the One who sent me. No one can come to me unless the Father draws him to me. And I will raise him up on the last day.
45. It is written in the prophets, ‘God will teach all the people.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
46. No one has seen the Father except the One who is from God. Only he has seen the Father.
47. I tell you the truth. He who believes has eternal life.
48. I am the bread that gives life.