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41 The Jews then murmured at Him, because He said, “I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.”

42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, ‘I came down from Heaven’?”

43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, “Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to Me unless the Father who hath sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned from the Father cometh unto Me.

46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save He that is of God; He hath seen the Father.

47 Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life.

48 I am that Bread of Life.

49 Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the Bread which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.

51 I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven. If any man eat of this Bread, he shall live for ever; and the Bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Then Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily I say unto you, unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

55 For My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood dwelleth in Me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.

58 This is that Bread which came down from Heaven, not as your fathers ate manna and are dead; he that eateth of this Bread shall live for ever.”

59 These things said He in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

60 Many of His disciples therefore, when they had heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?”

61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured at it, He said unto them, “Doth this offend you?

62 What if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before?

63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who believed not and who should betray Him.

65 And He said, “Therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto Me, unless it were given unto him by My Father.”

66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.

67 Then Jesus said unto the twelve, “Will ye also go away?”

68 Then Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,

69 and we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”

70 Jesus answered them, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for he it was who should betray Him, being one of the twelve.

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