²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[a](A)

¹⁴ I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel^(A) will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture^(B) on the mountains of Israel.^{(C) 15} I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down,^(D) declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(A) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread^(B) that came down from heaven.^(C) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(D)

⁵² Then the Jews^(E) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(F) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^(G) of the Son of Man^(H) and drink his blood,^(I) you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^{(J) 55} For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^{(K) 57} Just as the living Father sent me^(L) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^(M)