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Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
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This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."
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At that, the Jews argued among themselves, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"
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So Jesus said to them, "I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
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Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,
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because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.
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The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.
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Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
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This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate-and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."