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.
51. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Everyone who eats some of this bread will live forever. The bread is my body. I will give it for the life of the world."
52. Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves. They said, "How can this man give us his body to eat?"
53. Jesus said to them, "What I'm about to tell you is true. You must eat the Son of Man's body and drink his blood. If you don't, you have no life in you.
54. Anyone who eats my body and drinks my blood has eternal life. I will raise him up on the last day.
55. "My body is real food. My blood is real drink.
56. Anyone who eats my body and drinks my blood remains in me. And I remain in him.
57. "The living Father sent me, and I live because of him. In the same way, those who feed on me will live because of me.