55. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
57. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
58. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
59. These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60. Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
61. Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?