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I am the bread of the life;
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your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
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this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.
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`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
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The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us [his] flesh to eat?'
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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
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for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
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`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
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this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'