John / Jesus the Bread of Life

Jesus the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Chapter 6

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” ²⁶ Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs but because you ate the breads and were satisfied.” ²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that remains for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. God the Father has sealed him. ²⁸ They said to him therefore, "What must we do to work the works of God?" ²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one whom he sent.” ³⁰ They said to him therefore, "What sign then do you perform, so that we may see and believe in you? What do you work?" ³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” ³² Then Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” ³³ For the bread of God is the one descending from heaven and giving life to the world. ³⁴ They said to him therefore, “Lord, always give us this bread.” ³⁵ Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never hunger, and the one who believes in me will never thirst.” ³⁶ But I said to you that even though you have seen me, you do not believe. ³⁷ Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out. ³⁸ because I have come down from heaven, not to do my will but the will of the one who sent me ³⁹ But this is the will of the one who sent me, that of everything which he has given me I might not lose any of it, but raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴¹ Therefore the Jews were grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread, the one having come down from heaven.” ⁴² And they were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.” ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, “And they will all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—this one has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Amen, amen, 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 so that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. ⁵² Therefore, the Jews were quarreling with one another, saying, "How can this one give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.” ⁵⁴ The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father, the one who eats me will live through me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven—not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live into the eternal age. ⁵⁹ He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.