John 6:28-51

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[a] ”

32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.

37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.

44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.

45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[b] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 3:23
• 2. S John 3:17
• 3. S John 2:11
• 4. S Matthew 12:38
• 5. Numbers 11:7-9
• 6. Exodus 16:4,15; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalms 78:24; Psalms 105:40
• 7. ver 50; John 3:13,31
• 8. John 4:15
• 9. Exodus 3:14; John 8:12; John 10:7,11; John 11:25; John 14:6; John 15:1
• 10. ver 48,51
• 11. S John 3:15
• 12. John 4:14
• 13. ver 39; Jn 17:2,6,9,24
• 14. John 3:13,31
• 15. S Matthew 26:39
• 16. S John 3:17; John 4:34; John 5:30
• 17. Isaiah 27:3; Jeremiah 23:4; John 10:28; John 17:12; John 18:9
• 18. ver 40,44,54
• 19. John 12:45
• 20. S Matthew 25:46; John 3:15,16
• 21. Luke 4:22
• 22. John 7:27,28
• 23. ver 38,62
• 24. ver 65; Jeremiah 31:3; John 12:32
• 25. Isaiah 54:13; Jeremiah 31:33,34; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; Hebrews 8:10,11; Hebrews 10:16; 1 John 2:27
• 26. S John 1:18; John 5:37; John 7:29
• 27. S Matthew 25:46
• 28. ver 35,51
• 29. ver 31,58
• 30. ver 33
• 31. ver 35,48
• 32. ver 41,58
• 33. Hebrews 10:10

Footnotes

• [a] Exodus 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Psalm 78:24,25
• [b] Isaiah 54:13