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Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.
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Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.
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I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."
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This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"
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"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.
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For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him.
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As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.
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This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."
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Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum.