mnt - John:6:25-59

mnt@John:6:25 @ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

mnt@John:6:26 @ Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

mnt@John:6:27 @ "Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life - that which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father - God - has set his seal."

mnt@John:6:28 @ "What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

mnt@John:6:29 @ "This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

mnt@John:6:30 @ The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

mnt@John:6:31 @ "Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat."

mnt@John:6:32 @ "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;

mnt@John:6:33 @ "for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world."

mnt@John:6:34 @ "Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread."

mnt@John:6:35 @ "I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again.

mnt@John:6:36 @ "But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

mnt@John:6:37 @ "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

mnt@John:6:38 @ "For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

mnt@John:6:39 @ "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

mnt@John:6:40 @ "For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

mnt@John:6:41 @ Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

mnt@John:6:42 @ "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, I have come down from heaven?"

mnt@John:6:43 @ "Do not find fault with me among yourselves,"

mnt@John:6:44 @ answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

mnt@John:6:45 @ "It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

mnt@John:6:46 @ "Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.

mnt@John:6:47 @ "I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life.

mnt@John:6:48 @ "I am the bread of life.

mnt@John:6:49 @ "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.

mnt@John:6:50 @ "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

mnt@John:6:51 @ "I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

mnt@John:6:52 @ Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

mnt@John:6:53 @ "I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

mnt@John:6:54 @ "He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

mnt@John:6:55 @ "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

mnt@John:6:56 @ "He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.

mnt@John:6:57 @ "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

mnt@John:6:58 @ "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

mnt@John:6:59 @ He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum.