55. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.
57. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me—that one will live because of me.
58. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59. He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60. Thus many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This saying is hard! Who can understand it?”
61. But Jesus, because he knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?
62. Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?