John 6:48-58

48 "¹I am the bread of life.

49 "²Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50 "This is the bread which ³comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and ⁴not die.

51 "⁵I am the living bread that ⁶came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, ⁷he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give ⁸for the life of the world is ⁹My flesh."

52 ¹⁰Then the Jews ¹¹began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"

53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless * you eat the flesh of ¹²the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

54 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will ¹³raise him up on the last day.

55 "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

56 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood ¹⁴abides in Me, and I in him.

57 "As the ¹⁵living Father ¹⁶sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

58 "This is the bread which ¹⁷came down out of heaven; not as ¹⁸the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread ¹⁹will live forever."

Cross References

• 1. John 6:35, 51
• 2. John 6:31, 58
• 3. John 6:33
• 4. John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47, 51, 58; John 11:26
• 5. John 6:35, 48
• 6. John 6:41, 58
• 7. John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47, 58; John 11:26
• 8. John 1:29; John 3:14; Hebrews 10:10; 1 John 4:10
• 9. John 6:53-56
• 10. John 1:19; John 6:41
• 11. John 9:16; John 10:19
• 12. Matthew 8:20; John 6:27, 62
• 13. John 6:39
• 14. John 15:4; John 17:23; 1 John 2:24; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:15
• 15. Matthew 16:16; John 5:26
• 16. John 3:17; John 6:29, 38
• 17. John 6:33, 41, 51
• 18. John 6:31, 49
• 19. John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47, 51; John 11:26