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"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.
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For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him.
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As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.
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This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."
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Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum.
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Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
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But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them,
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"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?
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It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.