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Jesus answered, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.
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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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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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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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I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.
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I am the bread of life.
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Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.
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But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.
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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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This started an angry argument among them. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.
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Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.