49. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but still they died.
50. Here is the bread that comes down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will never die.
51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give up so that the world may have life.”
52. Then the evil people began to argue among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, you must eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood. Otherwise, you won’t have real life in you.
54. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
55. My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.