48. I am the bread of life.
49. Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.
50. This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.
51. I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.
52. If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."
53. Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
54. And so, Jesus said to them: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
55. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
56. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
57. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
58. Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.
59. This is the bread that descends from heaven. It is not like the manna that your fathers ate, for they died. Whoever eats this bread shall live forever."
60. He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
61. Therefore, many of his disciples, upon hearing this, said: "This saying is difficult," and, "Who is able to listen to it?"
62. But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: "Does this offend you?
63. Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?