41. The Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
42. and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43. Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves.
44. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
45. It is written in the prophets:‘They shall all be taught by God.’Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
46. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
48. I am the bread of life.
49. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
50. this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
52. The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?”
53. Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
54. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
55. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
57. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
58. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
59. These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60. Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”