40. My Father wants all who look to the Son and believe in him to have eternal life. I will raise them up on the last day."
41. Then the Jews began to complain about Jesus. That was because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."
42. They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father and mother? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"
43. "Stop complaining among yourselves," Jesus answered.
44. "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me brings him. Then I will raise him up on the last day.
45. "It is written in the Prophets, 'God will teach all of them.' (Isaiah 54:13) Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
46. "No one has seen the Father except the One who has come from God. Only he has seen the Father.
47. What I'm about to tell you is true. Everyone who believes has life forever.
48. "I am the bread of life.
49. Long ago your people ate the manna in the desert, and they still died.
50. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven. A person can eat it and not die.