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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day.
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For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink.
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.
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The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.
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This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."
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Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"
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Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, "Does this make you want to give up?
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Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?
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What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.
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Yet some of you do not believe." (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.)