Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

I Am The Living Bread From Heaven: Eat And Live Forever. The Bread Is My Flesh

⁴¹ Then the Jews were grumbling about Him because He said, “I am the bread having come down from heaven”. ⁴² And they were saying, “Is this One not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say that ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus responded and said to them, “Do not be grumbling with one another. ⁴⁴ No one is able to come to Me unless the Father having sent Me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It has been written in the prophets [in Isa 54:13]: ‘and they shall all be taught ones of God’. Everyone having heard from the Father and having learned, comes to Me— ⁴⁶ not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God; this One has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you— the one believing has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread coming down from heaven in order that anyone may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread having come down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh”.