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This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, 'And then they will all be personally taught by God.' Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally - to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father.
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No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father - and you can see me.
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"I'm telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life.
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I am the Bread of Life.
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Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died.
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But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever.
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I am the Bread - living Bread! - who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live - and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."
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At this, the Jews started fighting among themselves: "How can this man serve up his flesh for a meal?"
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But Jesus didn't give an inch. "Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you.
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The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day.
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My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.