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So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said,
1“I am the bread that came down from heaven. ”
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They said,
2“Is not this Jesus,
3the son of Joseph, whose father and mother
4we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”
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Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
5draws him. And
6I will raise him up on the last day.
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It is written in the Prophets,
7‘And they will all be
8taught by God. ’
9Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
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10not that anyone has seen the Father except
11he who is from God; he
12has seen the Father.
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Truly, truly, I say to you,
13whoever believes has eternal life.
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15Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and
16they died.
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17This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it
18and not die.
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I am the living bread
19that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give
20for the life of the world is
21my flesh. ”