³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven^(A) and gives life to the world.”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,^(A) for I have come here from God.^(B) I have not come on my own;^(C) God sent me.^(D)

The Incarnation of the Word of Life

1 That which was from the beginning,^(A) which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,^(B) which we have looked at and our hands have touched^(C)—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. ² The life appeared;^(D) we have seen it and testify to it,^(E) and we proclaim to you the eternal life,^(F) which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

²⁸ I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”^(A)

⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(A) which anyone may eat and not die.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.^(A)

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(A) not to do my will but to do the will^(B) of him who sent me.^(C)

¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven^(A) except the one who came from heaven^(B)—the Son of Man.^[a](C)