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41 The Judaeans then grumbled about him because he had said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”

42 “Isn’t this Jesus, Joseph’s son?” they said. “We know his father and mother, don’t we? So how can he say ‘I came down from heaven’?”

43 “Don’t grumble among yourselves,” answered Jesus. 44 “No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws them—and I will raise them up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to what comes from the father, and learns from it, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the father except the one who is from God; he has seen the father.”

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47 “I’m telling you the solemn truth,” Jesus went on. “Anyone who believes in me has the life of God’s coming age.

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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,(A) whose father and mother we know?(B) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”(C)

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,(D) and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a](E) 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;(F) only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13