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For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
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As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
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This is the bread which came down out of heaven -- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
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These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
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Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?"
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But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
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What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
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It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
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But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
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He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."