Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
41 The people started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."
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At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 So they said, "This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?"
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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 Jesus answered, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.
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“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
44 People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.
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“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 The prophets wrote, "Everyone will be taught by God.' Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.
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It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
46 This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father.
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No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
47 I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.
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Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
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I am the bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.
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Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
50 But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.
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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. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."
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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.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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