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.
50. This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone 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 forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
52. At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat? ”
53. So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
54. Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,