Holman Christian Standard Bible

John 6:37-49 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

37. Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

38. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

39. This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

40. For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

41. Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42. They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”

43. Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining 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 listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me —

46. not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

47. “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

48. I am the bread of life.

49. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.