⁸ The people went around gathering it,^(A) and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

³¹ The people of Israel called the bread manna.^[a](A) It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer^[a](A) for each person you have in your tent.’”

¹⁷ The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. ¹⁸ And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.^(B) Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.

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

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”^(B)

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am^(C) the bread of life.^(D) Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes^(E) in me will never be thirsty.^{(F) 36} But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me^(G) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(H) not to do my will but to do the will^(I) of him who sent me.^{(J) 39} And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(K) but raise them up at the last day.^{(L) 40} For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(M) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(N) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹ At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^(O) whose father and mother we know?^(P) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(Q)

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(R) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[a](S) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(T) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^{(U) 48} I am the bread of life.^{(V) 49} Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^{(W) 50} But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(X) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread^(Y) that came down from heaven.^(Z) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(AA)

⁵² Then the Jews^(AB) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(AC) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^(AD) of the Son of Man^(AE) and drink his blood,^(AF) you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^{(AG) 55} For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^{(AH) 57} Just as the living Father sent me^(AI) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^(AJ)

²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures^(A) to eternal life,^(B) which the Son of Man^(C) will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal^(D) of approval.”

²³ He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath^(A) to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”