John:6:25-59

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* So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him , they asked Him , »Rabbi , when did you come here ?« * »In most solemn truth I tell you ,« replied Jesus , »that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles , but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal . * Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes , but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages –that food which will be the Son of Man 's gift to you ; for on Him the Father , God , has set His seal .« * »What are we to do ,« they asked , »in order to carry out the things that God requires ?« * »This ,« replied Jesus , »is above all the thing that God requires –that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent .« * »What miracle then ,« they asked , »do you perform for us to see and become believers in you ? What do you ? * Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert , as it is written , * »In most solemn truth I tell you ,« replied Jesus , »that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven , but my Father is giving you the bread –the true bread – out of Heaven . * For God 's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world .« * »Sir ,« they said , »always give us that bread .« * »I am the bread of Life ,« replied Jesus ; »he who comes to me shall never hunger , and he who believes in me shall never , never thirst . * But it is as I have said to you : you have seen me and yet you do not believe . * Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me , and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away . * For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure , but to do the will of Him who sent me . * And this is the will of Him who sent me , that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing , but should raise it to life on the last day . * For this is my Father 's will , that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages , and I will raise him to life on the last day .« * Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven . * They kept asking , »Is not this man Joseph 's son ? Is he not Jesus , whose father and mother we know ? What does he mean by now saying , `I have come down out of Heaven '?« * »Do not thus find fault among yourselves ,« replied Jesus ; * »no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him ; then I will raise him to life on the last day .« * It stands written in the Prophets , Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me . * No one has ever seen the Father –except Him who is from God . He has seen the Father . * »In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages . * I am the bread of Life . * Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert , and they died . * Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die . * I am the living bread come down out of Heaven . If a man eats this bread , he shall live for ever . Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world .« * This led to an angry debate among the Jews . »How can this man ,« they argued , »give us his flesh to eat ?« * »In most solemn truth I tell you ,« said Jesus , »that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood , you have no Life in you . * He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages , and I will raise him up on the last day . * For my flesh is true food , and my blood is true drink . * He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me , and I remain in union with him . * As the ever-living Father has sent me , and I live because of the Father , so also he who eats me will live because of me . * This is the bread which came down out of Heaven ; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate –for they ate and yet died . He who eats this bread shall live for ever .« * Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum .

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