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.
57. The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me.
58. I am not like the bread your ancestors ate. They ate that bread and still died. I am the bread that came down from heaven, and whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
59. Jesus said all these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60. When the followers of Jesus heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”
61. Knowing that his followers were complaining about this, Jesus said, “Does this teaching bother you?