³⁵ The Israelites ate manna^(A) forty years,^(B) until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.^(C)

¹² The manna stopped the day after^[a] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.^(A)

² Remember how the Lord your God led^(A) you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test^(B) you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. ³ He humbled^(C) you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna,^(D) which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach^(E) you that man does not live on bread^(F) alone but on every word that comes from the mouth^(G) of the Lord.^(H)

³⁰ So they asked him, “What sign^(A) then will you give that we may see it and believe you?^(B) What will you do? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna^(C) in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[a]”^(D)

³² Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven^(E) and gives life to the world.”

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

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

⁴¹ At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^(S) whose father and mother we know?^(T) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(U)

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(V) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[b](W) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(X) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^{(Y) 48} I am the bread of life.^{(Z) 49} Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^{(AA) 50} But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(AB) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread^(AC) that came down from heaven.^(AD) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(AE)

⁵² Then the Jews^(AF) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(AG) “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^(AH) of the Son of Man^(AI) and drink his blood,^(AJ) 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.^{(AK) 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.^{(AL) 57} Just as the living Father sent me^(AM) 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.”^(AN)