And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

The Word Became Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.

he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh