³³ The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

⁸ for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

⁴² Jesus told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. I am not here on my own, but he sent me.

Introduction

1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning,^[a] whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. ² This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us.

²⁸ Yes, I came from the Father into the world, and now I will leave the world and return to the Father.”

⁵⁰ Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die.

⁴⁸ Yes, I am the bread of life!

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.

¹³ No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man^[a] has come down from heaven.

¹⁵ This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.