40 For this is the will of My Father:(A) that everyone who sees the Son(B) and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise(C) him up on the last day.”

41 Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph,(D) whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43 Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws[a] him, and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets:(E) And they will all be taught by God.(F)[b] Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father(G) comes to Me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father(H) except the One who is from God.(I) He has seen the Father.(J)

47 “I assure you: Anyone who believes[c] has eternal life.

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:44 Or brings, or leads; see the use of this Gk verb in Jn 12:32; 21:6; Ac 16:19; Jms 2:6.
  2. John 6:45 Is 54:13
  3. John 6:47 Other mss add in Me

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