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49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
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Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and 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 which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."
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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.”
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
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Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “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 the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
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For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.
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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.
58 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever."
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This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
59 This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Caper'na-um.
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He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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