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They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, `I have come down out of Heaven'?"
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"Do not thus find fault among yourselves," replied Jesus;
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"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.
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It stands written in the Prophets, `And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.
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No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.
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"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.
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I am the bread of Life.
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Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.
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Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.
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I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."
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This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"