³⁰ So they said to him, ^(A)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31 (B)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(C)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³² Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is ^(D)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ They said to him, ^(E)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ Jesus said to them, ^(F)“I am the bread of life; ^(G)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶ But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ^37 (H)All that ^(I)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(J)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸ For ^(K)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(L)my own will but ^(M)the will of him ^(N)who sent me. ³⁹ And ^(O)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(P)that I should lose nothing of ^(Q)all that he has given me, but ^(R)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(S)looks on the Son and ^(T)believes in him ^(U)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹ So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(V)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, ^(W)“Is not this Jesus, ^(X)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(Y)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁵² The Jews then ^(A)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(B)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^(C)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(D)have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(E)has eternal life, and ^(F)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(G)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(H)the living Father ^(I)sent me, and ^(J)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^58 (K)This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[a] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”