³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”^(A)

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am^(B) the bread of life.^(C) Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes^(D) in me will never be thirsty.^{(E) 36} But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me^(F) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(G) not to do my will but to do the will^(H) of him who sent me.^{(I) 39} And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(J) but raise them up at the last day.^{(K) 40} For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(L) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(M) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the festival,^(A) Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.^{(B) 38} Whoever believes^(C) in me, as Scripture has said,^(D) rivers of living water^(E) will flow from within them.”^{[a](F) 39} By this he meant the Spirit,^(G) whom those who believed in him were later to receive.^(H) Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.^(I)