John 6:25-59
Legacy Standard Bible
25 And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “(A)Rabbi, when did You come here?”
I Am the Bread of Life
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you (B)seek Me, not because you saw (C)signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not (D)work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to (E)eternal life, which (F)the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, (G)set His seal.” 28 Therefore they said to Him, “What should we do, so that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is (H)the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He (I)has sent.” 30 So they said to Him, “(J)What then do You do for a (K)sign so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform? 31 (L)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘(M)He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is [a]that which (N)comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, always (O)give us this bread.”
35 Jesus said to them, “(P)I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never hunger, and he who believes in Me (Q)will never thirst. 36 But (R)I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. 37 (S)All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out. 38 For (T)I have come down from heaven, (U)not to do My own will, but (V)the will of Him who (W)sent Me. 39 Now this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of (X)all that He has given Me I (Y)lose nothing, but (Z)raise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who (AA)sees the Son and (AB)believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will (AC)raise him up on the last day.”
Words to the Jews
41 (AD)Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that (AE)came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “(AF)Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother (AG)we know? How does He now say, ‘(AH)I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me (AI)draws him; and I will (AJ)raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written (AK)in the prophets, ‘(AL)And they shall all be (AM)taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. 46 (AN)Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes (AO)has eternal life. 48 (AP)I am the bread of life. 49 (AQ)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread which (AR)comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and (AS)not die. 51 (AT)I am the living bread that (AU)came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, (AV)he will live forever; and also the bread which I will give (AW)for the life of the world is (AX)My flesh.”
52 (AY)Then the Jews (AZ)began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of (BA)the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will (BB)raise him up on the last day. 55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood (BC)abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the (BD)living Father (BE)sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which (BF)came down out of heaven, not as (BG)the fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread (BH)will live forever.”
Words to the Disciples
59 These things He said (BI)in the synagogue as He taught (BJ)in Capernaum.
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- John 6:33 Or He who comes
John 6:25-59
New Living Translation
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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