John 6:38-48

38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.

Cross References 15

  • 1. John 3:13,31
  • 2. S Matthew 26:39
  • 3. S John 3:17; John 4:34; John 5:30
  • 4. Isaiah 27:3; Jeremiah 23:4; John 10:28; John 17:12; John 18:9
  • 5. ver 40,44,54
  • 6. John 12:45
  • 7. S Matthew 25:46; John 3:15,16
  • 8. Luke 4:22
  • 9. John 7:27,28
  • 10. ver 38,62
  • 11. ver 65; Jeremiah 31:3; John 12:32
  • 12. Isaiah 54:13; Jeremiah 31:33,34; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; Hebrews 8:10,11; Hebrews 10:16; 1 John 2:27
  • 13. S John 1:18; John 5:37; John 7:29
  • 14. S Matthew 25:46
  • 15. ver 35,51

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