The Gospel of John

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JOHN 6:22-71

22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake

realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it

with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. 23 Then some boats from

Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the

Lord had given thanks. 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his

disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search

of Jesus.

25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi,

when did you get here?”

26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you

saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which

the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of

approval.”

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe

you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is

written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the

bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life

to the world.”

34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never

go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you,

you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me

will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have

come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has

given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone

who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise

them up at the last day.”

41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the

bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of

Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down

from heaven’?”

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to

me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.

45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who

has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen

the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very

truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the

bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am

the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live

forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man

give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of

Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and

drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my

flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks

my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and

I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of

me.58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna

and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while

teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can

accept it?”

61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does

this offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he

was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have

spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who

do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not

believe and who would betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you

that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words

of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One

of God.”

70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a

devil!” 71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the

Twelve, was later to betray him.)