58. I am not like the bread that your ancestors ate. They ate that bread, but they still died. I am the bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
59. Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue in the city of Capernaum.
60. When Jesus’ followers heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”
61. Jesus already knew that his followers were complaining about this. So he said, “Is this teaching a problem for you?
62. Then what will you think when you see the Son of Man going up to where he came from?
63. It is the Spirit that gives life. The body is of no value for that. But the things I have told you are from the Spirit, so they give life.
64. But some of you don’t believe.” (Jesus knew the people who did not believe. He knew this from the beginning. And he knew the one who would hand him over to his enemies.)
65. Jesus said, “That is why I said, ‘Anyone the Father does not help to come to me cannot come.’”
66. After Jesus said these things, many of his followers left and stopped following him.
67. Jesus asked the twelve apostles, “Do you want to leave too?”
68. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, where would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.
69. We believe in you. We know that you are the Holy One from God.”
70. Then Jesus answered, “I chose all twelve of you. But one of you is a devil.”
71. He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was one of the twelve apostles, but later he would hand Jesus over to his enemies.