John 6:39-59
Worldwide English (New Testament)
39 My Father sent me. He wants me to lose nothing that he has given me. And he wants me to raise it up on the last day.
40 My Father wants everyone who sees his Son and believes in him to live for ever. I will raise him up on the last day.'
41 The leaders of the Jews did not like Jesus to say, `I am the bread that has come down from heaven.'
42 They said, `Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus? We know his father and mother. How can he say, "I have come down from heaven"?'
43 Jesus answered them, `There is no need for you to talk against me to each other.
44 No one can come to me if my Father does not draw him. He sent me. I myself will raise up the one who comes to me. I will bring him back to life on the last day.
45 The prophets wrote, "God will teach all people." So then, every person who listens to his words and learns what he says, he will come to me.
46 `But no person has seen my Father. The only one who has seen him is the one who comes from God. He has seen my Father.
47 I tell you the truth. The person who believes in me will live for ever.
48 I am the bread that gives life.
49 Your fathers ate bread in the desert long ago, but they died.
50 Here is bread that comes down from heaven. The person who eats this bread will never die.
51 I am the bread that gives life. I came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live for ever. I will give bread so that the world may live. I am that bread.'
52 The leaders of the Jews began to quarrel with each other about what Jesus said. They said, `How can he give us himself to eat?'
53 Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. If you do not eat the Son of Man and do not drink his blood, you will not have life.
54 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood will live for ever. I will raise him up at the last day.
55 I am real food, and my blood is real drink.
56 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood is in me and I in him.
57 My Father is living. He sent me. I have my life from him. In the same way, the person who eats of me will live because of me.
58 This bread which came down from heaven is not like the bread that your fathers ate. They ate bread but they died. Anyone who eats this bread from heaven will live for ever.'
59 Jesus was in the meeting house in Capernaum when he was teaching people these things.
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