John 6:40-56

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁰ And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth in him, may have life everlasting, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴¹ The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

⁴² And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?

⁴³ Jesus therefore answered, and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves.

⁴⁴ No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

⁴⁶ Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

⁴⁷ Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

⁵⁰ This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

⁵² If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.

⁵³ The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁵⁴ Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

⁵⁵ He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁵⁶ For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.