Book of Common Prayer

²³ The father and mother of Moses believed God. When he was born, they hid him for three months because they saw that he was a very nice baby. They were not afraid of the king's orders.

²⁴ Moses believed God. When he was grown up, he did not want to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

²⁵ He chose to have troubles along with God's people. He thought that was better than the fun which he could have living a wrong life. The fun would last only for a short time.

²⁶ He thought it was better to take shame, as Christ did, than to be a rich man in Egypt. He was looking for God's blessings.

²⁷ He believed God and left Egypt. He was not afraid of the king's anger. He was strong because he saw the one who cannot be seen.

²⁸ He believed God and obeyed his law about the Passover Feast, and put blood on the door posts. He did this so that the angel who killed the oldest sons of the Egyptians, would pass over. Then he would not kill the oldest sons in the families of the Jews.

²⁹ The people believed God and went through the Red Sea on dry land. When the people of Egypt tried to do that, they were drowned.

³⁰ The people believed God and walked around the walls of the city of Jericho for seven days. The walls fell down.

³¹ Rahab was a woman who used her body wrongly for sex to get money. But she believed in God, so she did not die with the people who did not believe in God. This was when the men came to spy out her country. She took them into her house in peace.

⁵² The leaders of the Jews began to quarrel with each other about what Jesus said. They said, `How can he give us himself to eat?'

⁵³ Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. If you do not eat the Son of Man and do not drink his blood, you will not have life.

⁵⁴ Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood will live for ever. I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵ I am real food, and my blood is real drink.

⁵⁶ Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood is in me and I in him.

⁵⁷ My Father is living. He sent me. I have my life from him. In the same way, the person who eats of me will live because of me.

⁵⁸ This bread which came down from heaven is not like the bread that your fathers ate. They ate bread but they died. Anyone who eats this bread from heaven will live for ever.'

⁵⁹ Jesus was in the meeting house in Capernaum when he was teaching people these things.