John 6:25-59
Christian Standard Bible
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi,(A) when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw[a] the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27 Don’t work for the food that perishes(B) but for the food that lasts for eternal life,(C) which the Son of Man(D) will give you, because God the Father(E) has set his seal of approval on him.”
28 “What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.
29 Jesus replied, “This is the work(F) of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.”(G)
30 “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna(H) in the wilderness,(I) just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”[b](J)
32 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses(K) didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 “I am(L) the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me(M) will ever be hungry,(N) and no one who believes in me(O) will ever be thirsty(P) again. 36 But as I told you, you’ve seen me,[c] and yet you do not believe. 37 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.(Q) 38 For I have come down from heaven,(R) not to do my own will, but the will of him(S) who sent me. 39 This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise(T) them up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father: (U) that everyone who sees the Son(V) and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise(W) him up on the last day.”
41 Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph,(X) whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws[d] him, and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: (Y) And they will all be taught by God.[e](Z) Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father(AA) comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father(AB) except the one who is from God.(AC) He has seen the Father.(AD)
47 “Truly I tell you, anyone who believes[f] has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna(AE) in the wilderness,(AF) and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.(AG) 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live(AH) forever.(AI) The bread that I will give for the life(AJ) of the world is my flesh.”(AK)
52 At that, the Jews argued(AL) among themselves,(AM) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man(AN) and drink his blood,(AO) you do not have life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood(AP) has eternal life, and I will raise(AQ) him up on the last day, 55 because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.(AR) 57 Just as the living(AS) Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live(AT) because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna[g] your ancestors ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”(AU)
59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue(AV) in Capernaum.(AW)
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John 6:25-59
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25 They found him on the other side of the lake and asked, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you understood the miraculous signs. 27 But don’t be so concerned about perishable things like food. Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that the Son of Man[a] can give you. For God the Father has given me the seal of his approval.”
28 They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”
29 Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”
30 They answered, “Show us a miraculous sign if you want us to believe in you. What can you do? 31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[b]”
32 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven. 33 The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day.”
35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me. 37 However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. 38 For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will. 39 And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day. 40 For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 Then the people[c] began to murmur in disagreement because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 But Jesus replied, “Stop complaining about what I said. 44 For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up. 45 As it is written in the Scriptures,[d] ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 (Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only I, who was sent from God, have seen him.)
47 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life. 48 Yes, I am the bread of life! 49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died. 50 Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”
52 Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. 54 But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”
59 He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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