⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(A)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(B)the living Father ^(C)sent me, and ^(D)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^58 (E)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.”

^63 (A)It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(B)the flesh is no help at all. ^(C)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.