⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”^(A)

¹⁹ Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

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

⁵ Consequently, when Christ^[a] came into the world, he said,

⁸ When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹ then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by God’s will^[c] that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.^(C)

¹¹ And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.^{(D) 12} But when Christ^[d] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,”

¹³ No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.^[a](A)

²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”^(A)

¹⁴ He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.^(A)

²⁰ by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),^(A)

²¹ For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(A)

⁴ Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and