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Jesus then said to them , "
Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven ;
my Father gives you the true bread from heaven .
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For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven ,
and gives life to the world ."
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They said to him , "
Lord ,
give us this bread always ."
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Jesus said to them , "
I am the bread of life ;
he who comes to me shall not hunger ,
and he who believes in me shall never thirst .
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But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe .
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All that the Father gives me will come to me ;
and him who comes to me I will not cast out .
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For I have come down from heaven ,
not to do my own will ,
but the will of him who sent me ;
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and this is the will of him who sent me ,
that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me ,
but raise it up at the last day .
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For this is the will of my Father ,
that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life ;
and I will raise him up at the last day ."
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The Jews then murmured at him ,
because he said , "
I am the bread which came down from heaven ."
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They said , "
Is not this Jesus ,
the son of Joseph ,
whose father and mother we know ?
How does he now say , `
I have come down from heaven '?"
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Jesus answered them , "
Do not murmur among yourselves .
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him ;
and I will raise him up at the last day .
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It is written in the prophets , `
And they shall all be taught by God .'
Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me .
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Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God ;
he has seen the Father .
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Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
he who believes has eternal life .
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I am the bread of life .
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Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness ,
and they died .
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This is the bread which comes down from heaven ,
that a man may eat of it and not die .
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven ;
if any one eats of this bread ,
he will live for ever ;
and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh ."
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The Jews then disputed among themselves ,
saying , "
How can this man give us his flesh to eat ?"
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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 ;
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he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life ,
and I will raise him up at the last day .
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For my flesh is food indeed ,
and my blood is drink indeed .
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me ,
and I in him .
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As the living Father sent me ,
and I live because of the Father ,
so he who eats me will live because of me .
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This is the bread which came down from heaven ,
not such as the fathers ate and died ;
he who eats this bread will live for ever ."