John 6:28-38

28 Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing ¹the works of God?"

29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, ²that you believe in him whom ³he has sent."

30 So they said to him, ⁴"Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

31 ⁵Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ⁶'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

32 Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is ⁷he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

34 They said to him, ⁸"Sir, give us this bread always."

35 Jesus said to them, ⁹"I am the bread of life; ¹⁰whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

37 ¹¹All that ¹²the Father gives me will come to me, and ¹³whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

38 For ¹⁴I have come down from heaven, not to do ¹⁵my own will but ¹⁶the will of him ¹⁷who sent me.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Corinthians 15:58; Revelation 2:26
• 2. 1 John 3:23
• 3. See John 3:17
• 4. See Matthew 12:38
• 5. ver. 49, 58; Exodus 16:15; Numbers 11:7-9
• 6. Cited from Nehemiah 9:15; [Psalms 78:24, 25; Psalms 105:40; 1 Corinthians 10:3]
• 7. ver. 50
• 8. See John 4:15, 33
• 9. ver. 41, 48, 51; [ver. 58]
• 10. John 4:14; John 7:37; [John 5:40; Matthew 11:28; Revelation 7:16]
• 11. ver. 39; John 17:2
• 12. John 10:29; John 17:6, 9, 24
• 13. John 10:28; John 17:12
• 14. See John 3:13
• 15. See John 5:30
• 16. See John 5:30
• 17. See John 4:34